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Today I made myself useful for the first time in, oh weeks and weeks. I went to work (in an MPs office, for anyone who doesn't know where I occasionally work. At last count, the number of people potentially reading this who don't know that comes in at nil, but just in case).
As always, I had to "do the filing" which is a nightmarish task. The "filing" this time was in a box that reaches my knees. I have barely dented it. It may be the most boring task ever, as it involves sitting on the floor with piles and piles of letters sorting them into alphabetical order according to constituent's surname. A good 25% of the time you have to skim read the whole thing to find out the name of the constituent to which it refers. So yeah, it's really boring.
Today was a bit crazed, because Louise (the MP) is busy trying to sort out the Michael Shields case, since he is in her constituency. So she was in and out the office all day, and the phone was ringing off the hook with people from Sky News and Radio Four and all kinds looking for quotes. She's apparently been focusing really heavily on it, so all the other cases are piling up and up in the in-tray waiting to be dealt with. Plus Rob is on holiday so there's only really Julie running the show. The whole thing's a bit insane.
And in the middle of it all there is me, writing letters to the guy who runs the Post Office because a British passport has gone missing in the post between here and Brazil. I'm still not clear on why the owner of said passport was here whilst his passport was in South America with his Brazilian boyfriend. But sadly you don't get to call up the constituents and ask questions, so I'll never know.
And...well that's it really. Other non-news since my last entry is largely limited to:
The arrival of my Leeds ticket (yay!)
and
The fact that last week I baked some peanut and raisin cookies.
So, as I said, non-news.
As always, I had to "do the filing" which is a nightmarish task. The "filing" this time was in a box that reaches my knees. I have barely dented it. It may be the most boring task ever, as it involves sitting on the floor with piles and piles of letters sorting them into alphabetical order according to constituent's surname. A good 25% of the time you have to skim read the whole thing to find out the name of the constituent to which it refers. So yeah, it's really boring.
Today was a bit crazed, because Louise (the MP) is busy trying to sort out the Michael Shields case, since he is in her constituency. So she was in and out the office all day, and the phone was ringing off the hook with people from Sky News and Radio Four and all kinds looking for quotes. She's apparently been focusing really heavily on it, so all the other cases are piling up and up in the in-tray waiting to be dealt with. Plus Rob is on holiday so there's only really Julie running the show. The whole thing's a bit insane.
And in the middle of it all there is me, writing letters to the guy who runs the Post Office because a British passport has gone missing in the post between here and Brazil. I'm still not clear on why the owner of said passport was here whilst his passport was in South America with his Brazilian boyfriend. But sadly you don't get to call up the constituents and ask questions, so I'll never know.
And...well that's it really. Other non-news since my last entry is largely limited to:
The arrival of my Leeds ticket (yay!)
and
The fact that last week I baked some peanut and raisin cookies.
So, as I said, non-news.