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[matgb]

Work.

Seriously. It's been over a month since I sat in an office and did a solid day's work, and, although it's weird, I sort of miss it. So, after a bit of (welcome) badgering from pinkshifter, I went into Cowley St (LibDem HQ) and helped out with a big pile of data entry for next months spring conference. Lots (and lots) of forms.

It felt just like being back at the old place, except the data entry didn't feel completely pointless. Plus, picking up forms filled in by journalists I've seen on TV, or bloggers I've read, and updating their details was, weirdly, cool. Met mooism and others for lunch, went to the Regency Cafe, a place so good it's the main picture on the Wiki entry for greasy spoon. Decent omelette, pile of chips and a whole pint of orange juice (in a traditional milk bottle) for under a fiver. Bargain, that's cheap by Devon standards, let alone central London; I'll go back there again. At the end of the long day we went for pizza in the Pizza Express under Millbank Tower. As that's no longer where Labour have their HQ, no apparatchiks to strangle, but, y'know...

Only downpoint was the tube home; took the District to Earl's Court, but then had to wait half an hour (along with most of the platform) for the Wimbledon train, loads of enpty trains went past to the other stations, but one for us? Not a chance. Right; off to go download the new extensions you've all been recommending me in the previous post, ColorZilla looks good straight out of the box...

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[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I went into Cowley St (LibDem HQ) and helped out with a big pile of data entry for next months spring conference. Lots (and lots) of forms.

God, now I feel guilty. I keep meaning to volunteer somewhere in Libdemmery to do, you know, stuff. But don't. Because I'm a bad person.

[matgb]

Well, if you've free time at all next few weeks, the conference team are swamped. 4 people to organise a 6000 person conference. Not sure I could do that and stay sane...

But, y'know, it's the first time I've done anything for them in ages, so it's not Bad Person, it's not got around to it normality methinks...

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Evenings and weekends are possibilities, depending on just how late things could go (or how early I could start work, which is pretty flexible about this sort of thing).

[matgb]

We got fed up trying to get the printers to work tonight at about 8.45pm and went home. And they're talking about being in this weekend and next, conference is first weekend of March, a whole lotta database stuff and printing needs doing between now and then.

It's, um, fun. In a 'not very but useful' kinda way.