Things not to do when the boss is in town...

Today was mappy map day. So I thought you should see the big map that we created on our first strategy day. I'm so quickly learning this state, which is a good thing. But it's because I've spent hours each day looking at one - congressional districts, the regions we've created, etc. This day was devoted to map-making for our door-knockers.

If you haven't tried Mappoint on XP, I would say you're missing much. The program is fun - until it gets ignorant on you and decides that it is impossible to get from one address on the map to one down the street. I dunno. Thank god for my stressball.

But we have finally gotten most of the stuff we needed to do out of the way, now it's just tightening and executing. Yippidy do!

So now you're wondering about the title of this blog. By the way, if you haven't already noticed, I get loopy when I haven't slept much. I feel like I'm back in college. But after we got done with our data entry yesterday and things got quiet, I took advantage of the moment to breathe and decided to play a clip on my computer for Jess and Megan. And you all thought that this was going to be a serious blog about my experiences. Ha! I've known all along there would be stories like this. Just didn't realize they'd happen to me in such a short amount of time. You've been warned...

Now this clip was a favorite of ours in college, it's a radio prank this boyfriend got the dj to play on his girlfriend about a "toy" she had purchased as a prank gift (yeah, right). The dj basically tells her that they are recalling said "toy" because of some health problems that have developed and basically asked her a lot of personal questions about her and the use of her "toy" - okay, you get the idea. Hilarious. Especially if you've been in an office for 15 hours and counting.

So the bossman is in town and we all even got a little more dressed up than usual for his trip into Des Moines.

Lulled into a false sense of security by thinking he was in a meeting, I was not entirely prepared for him to walk in midsentence as the girl says, "You're recalling a vibrat...?"*

I turned halfway through the word to find him standing there with an incrdulous look on his face.

After a moment of "Ummmmm?" We all started laughing and I blamed it on no sleep. We had a good laugh. Funny, yes. Only something like that would happen to me. You heard it here folks, I am an ass, even unintentionally. At least everyone here shares my ridiculously healthy sense of humor.

As Narco or Heish would say, I won the totch award. Neeeeaaaaat.

*I have edited the story for two reasons: 1) this is exactly how it happened and 2) I realized exactly how many people and whom are reading this blog - apparently, this has passed along to family members and people who study elections. So being the responsible person that I am, I have decided to edit it to protect the innocent. Note the sarcasm in my typing. But either way, I'm starting to watch it...