Election Week Looms

This coming week is the midterm elections, but this past week was the relaunch of National Journal and it was a mind-blowing week in itself.
Monday: A very long day of figuring out how to organize the staff, the production of content and everybody around the idea of this model for news. It was interesting because here it had never been a breaking news type atmosphere but you got that feeling the minute you walked in on Monday. I stayed clear of much of the madness, and I was not too busy. That also could be because I had put in a 12 hour day on Sunday was just exhausted. I helped by teaching a few people how to make sections in the new system and working with people troubleshooting.
Tuesday: Terry Michael day! Today we just discussed politics in general and had no speaker. It was a fairly boring session to say the very least and we had some students out. I headed down to work to do what I am now doing everyday. I check the news to see what is going on in the world and figure out what we need to be following on the homepage. I spent most of the morning and afternoon working on cnadidate profiles and getting organized on the homepage so that as new profiles came in during the week the process would go smoothly.
Wednesday: Slideshows. I spent the entire day working with my partner Ken who I sit next to to figure out how to put this candidate biographies that I had been working on into a slide show. It does not seem that hard, but after I made enough errors I had to go back to the drawing board a couple of times.
Thursday: Terry Michael Day! Today we had a guest speaker visit and talk about foreign policy. It was quite interesting for a bit because we got his perspective, but after awhile the session took a turn when our professor, Terry, and the guest started this passive aggressive argument over foreign policy. It seemed to go on forever and they continued in this circle for a couple of hours. By the time I got down to work, there were quite a few profile to be logged into the system and those took up the rest of my afternoon.
Friday: Today I was given my marching orders for the night of the election. I will not have to come into work until around 3, and then I will be here til about 1 am. I will get to go home and sleep for a bit but then be back in the office around 9 am. Friday was the final push for profiles before the weekend and Monday when I am inundated with a new batch. the profiles are of candidates who we think will be coming into the new Congress. It is not that hard, but rather putting them all together is time consuming to say the very least.