Late Night Parma

Last night I found out the Arby's in Parma is open until 1:00 AM. Tonight I am learning that on Friday nights we stay at the office until 4:00 AM to "cut turf" and enter data. Cutting turf is very important to campaigning but too boring to explain. It has to do with precincts and door knocks and other election shenanigans. Probably exactly the kind of thing I wouldn't be allowed to blog about were this blog still public.

I am SO TIRED. My friends know how much I like my nine hours a night, and right now I'm thinking nine hours is going to have to cover it for the whole weekend. We're all running on a mixture of caffeine (yes, even me, I have backslid to the dark side), Indian food, and the forced adrenaline of ELEVEN MORE DAYS! (or whatever day we're at).

Even if the end of my day were coming now (instead of four hours from now), it would have been a long day. It started by handing out free Jay-Z concert tickets to an only occasionally angry mob at 12 noon (he's giving a free Obama concert/rally next Wednesday at the big arena in Cleveland) followed up by a hastily-arranged town hall meeting with Madeleine Albright at the Parma VFW hall. I love a day in which the entire spectrum of Obama supporters is represented, from Rockafella to the former Secretary of State. The Jay-Z ticketers started lining up at 5:00 am, and the Albright attendees filed into the hall and found their folding chairs about 5:30pm. For the Albrighters, bottled water and chocolate cookies. For the Z-ers, nothing except the cold wind and the promise of big pimpin'. The Albrighters wanted to know the Secretary's take on Iran and the Russian invasion of Georgia. The Z-ers wanted to know when were we getting more tickets?!? I will say both groups seemed equally committed to electing Barack Obama the next President of the United States.

I hope you all are sleeping soundly somewhere, or at least out enjoying last call. Think of me next time you make dinner, or watch a movie, or do any of those normal things that seem so elusively wonderful right now.

Holla!