Accidental Tourists

I may be a little stressed

( dreaming of American politics )

It was weird.

I suspect it's a relegation of my stress about the current state of Australian politics and the volunteering for the indie.

That said, things seem pretty positive right now. I've done doorknocking and handing out leaflets at the station. I actually prefer doorknocking, because people are more civil. Then again, we've mostly been doorknocking in the 'new districts' where the electoral boundaries have changed and people are trying to work out who they vote for now.

Some funny moments: incumbent has been running around, shaking hands, schmoozing, putting the effort in...but a bunch of his corflutes (signs) are not legal. They have to have an "Authorised By" line, to show that this is a proper and authorised member of a party.

And some of his signs don't.

They're being reported, every which way you look. So he has to replace them. LOLZ.

Admittedly he has the weight of the conservative party behind him so UGH. They'll replace them within a few days.

I haven't been able to do much volunteering this week - I was away last weekend, and this week and coming weekend I have to be free for various work-related things. So that's draining.

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I had to work over the weekend, about 1.5 hours at 9am, 1.5 hours at 3pm. The actual thing I was doing? Took about 15 minutes, but it was all the back-and-forth co-ordinating that was a pain. Also, trying to work out if I was actually going to be needed. They're getting charged half a day, though.

Work this week is weird hours and not much happening, but when it does happen it happens all over the place! My colleague (who's above me) has left to go on holidays, but...we didn't get me onto the necessary email authorisation before he left. So now I don't have access to the inbox for our group and...we can't find anyone else who does have access...

Got that sorted out yesterday.

Unfortunately, it seems that there are two things happening on the weekend - Saturday and Sunday - which we've just been told that we have to be available to keep an eye on the situation.

Also, the person currently running the teams leaders meeting seems very young.

Man I'm glad I'm not usually working at this level and my colleague is happy (or, at least, uncomplaining) about doing this...