No Rest for the Wicked

Aw.  I know the nicest people from the Internetz.  Thanks, you guys.  Am definitely off yesterday's ledge, thanks to the reassurance and advice.

Of course, I also have not slept since yesterday's post, so that might be contributing to the numbing effect. 

La la la, I love elections!  Yes, a new president is elected. And yes, for some of you -- nay, maybe even most of you -- the long national nightmare that was the campaign season and coverage is over. But I still have four more days of fallout as we analyze trends in Congress, how the committees will be reshaped, who's  going to get snubbed and who's going to get patted on the head, what the Freshest Form of Hope will offer up regarding pet issues and projects, blah. Blah. BLAH. And that's not even counting the congressional races that are too close to call or the recounts or the runoffs.  Here is what is left on my plate:

** Human shielding against maybe half of the 60 million nastygrams from colleagues about how everything we did sucked.
** Posting an 84-page Guide to the New Congress on our web site.
** Posting a 140-something-page weekly magazine on our web site.
** Wringing my hands helplessly as I watch other sleepless employees flip our site from our "Hey! Look! An Election!" template to a brand-new and probably at least a wee bit buggy "Hey! Look! A New Adminstration!" one.

Plus, you know, all the stuff I do the other 300-some days of the year to earn my check. 

Plus, oh yeah, threatening the Young Prince with physical violence if he goofs off in school.  No, wait, I might enjoy that too much this week. Let's try "threatening the Young Prince with being locked in his room with no TV and no music and no computer if he goofs off in school." Yes, I think that will keep me from being arrested.

Comments

[lane]

Like he couldn't amuse himself in an empty room. Sheesh! ;)

Have fun and don't work TOO hard.

[Sharidan]

If you need ideas on a human shielding costume let me know - I've got a closet full of old skating attire... Rest easy about the young blues brother, for me it wasn't an aversion to coloring but an aversion to handwriting homework that caused me to skip from 3rd grade to 4th. Had I never done that, I would have never been seated next to a certain flute player on the way to band camp!