Election Week Post-Mortum

So this week was insane due to the midterm elections and lets not waste any time getting into it.
Monday: They say there is always a calm before the storm and I would have to agree in general. Monday was a smooth day on the whole and I was able to get quite a bit of work done. There were a few problems with the candidate profiles I had been creating, but I was able to work those problems out as they presented themselves. I stayed around til about 8 p.m. so I bit late, but I knew the flood gates would open the next day.
Tuesday: I managed to sit through a lecture with Terry Michael, but then it was back downstairs to start my election day duties. It was prep time for my profiles so I spent the morning making sure that they were ready to go. I was not supposed to come into the office until three because I would be working til maybe 1 a.m. but I could not really get away. I took a break to watch an episode of a show I had missed, but that was all the excitement that I could afford. Once the election returns began coming in around 6 p.m. that is when the madness really began. What would happen is our digital editor would call out races that had been called and if it applied to me that is how I knew to start building a slide for the slide show that we were creating. We were creating a slide show for every new member that was elected to Congress. It doesn't seem that bad but when you get to number 100... you start to see lose your mind. I was able to keep up until around 9, then we began to get behind. I would write down names on a piece of paper and take them over to another editor who was editing the profiles before I could put them up online. It was quite the process, but we got it down to art around midnight. Looking at the way I was doing things, my process was not going to be easily replicated by anyone so it was up to me to finish the job. We were still going strong at 3 in the morning and we decided that at 4 we were going to take a 45 minute nap. I took this nap, but then afterwards it was back to putting in profiles. I saw the sun come up and the next round of employees enter the office for the next day (wednesday). I was still putting in profiles around 10:30, but then I finally made it out of the office around 10:45. I had been working or about 26 hours and had been in the office longer than any other person.
Wednesday: I will call this the lost day because all I did was sleep and recuperate.
Thursday: Terry Michael Day! We shared war stories from election night and then talked about the role of campaign managers. After this discussion, I headed back downstairs to see how things had gone on Wednesday and figure out what lose ends still needed to be tied up. Things were still kind of a blur from the frantic pace of the last two days, but I was able to clean up the profiles and start working on some new projects. My favorite thing I was able to start was a funny photo gallery of the random things that the new congressmen were doing before they were elected. I had some photo fun to say the very least.
Friday: Everybody in the office was ready for the weekend. Nobody was going to be able to make it much longer without a good nights sleep and some time away from work. I have been working on a thesis for school, so I was able to do that as well as work on a new slide show for a project that documents what people do when their families are gone to war. It is called While You Were Gone. It should be very compelling visually.
Well, thats about it for this week. Lets hope next week is not as frantic.