here's what my day was like on tuesday, election day:

after walking a late-night precinct on monday night in the castro and finally getting to bed around 1am, i woke up on tuesday morning at 4am. then i was off to the zoo-- all the way across town-- by the very first bus available in the morning. at 5:30am i was at the zoo area and i got my packages for my two morning precincts. i met up with my friend and colleague johnnie and we had a little coffee, caught up on current activities, and discussed how the precincts would go this morning. this was around 6am. by 7:30am i was done with walking and just had to wait for a few hours and really needed a bathroom, so i went off to a nice 24hour diner for some pancakes and read the paper. around 9:30am i started back on the precincts by checking the polls to make sure everything seemed to be running smoothly and to see which of my voters had voted yet. i then knocked on a few doors and called the rest of the numbers and went over to johnnie's (he lives in the neighborhood sorta) for a little while. eventually he and i headed back to the zoo area for lunch at the headquarters and the next steps. eventually i was sent off to do two more precincts (with similar actions and roles) around the university of san francisco. after that was done, around 5pm, i headed over to the castro to do more leafletting to passers-by before the polls closed at 8pm. it started getting really cold and i was oh-so-tired so i took a cab home, let myself lay down for about 5 minutes, and then showered, cleaned-up, and made my way to after-election parties. i scarfed down as much food as possible at this party because i suddenly realized i hadn't eaten hardly anything all day and i was starving. i then found my way home and thankfully had a late morning on wednesday so i got to sleep in. all wednesday i was exhausted and had a headache. i think i'm finally caught up slightly on sleep now, today, thursday. but i'm still pretty tired and felling very behind on my real work now... all-in-all i'm oh-so-glad the whole thing is over!