I am at a point just beyond exhausted...

I've been living at the Obama volunteer center in Bloomington for the past 5 days and just got home. I am so tired that I feel like crying. I'd actually try to let myself have a good cry, but I am too tired.

The office doesn't open until noon tomorrow and that, I hope, will be my salvation.

Today's AP report that 20% of all early voting in Indiana has been from just 3 counties (out of 92 in the entire state) -- and that my county, Monroe, is among those 3 was a nice lift this morning. I worked my ass off registering voters and worked the early voting location on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington the two days it was open in the past week or so.

This week was final exam week on campus and I've had exams to write and give and review sessions to teach and office hours to hold and emergency end-of-semester emails from students to answer and grading keys to create for grad students so they can grade exams. I gave an open-book-open-note test in the class with all essay exams so that the exams would be much, much faster to grade and so that I could justify having my AI grade a few select questions and I could give students full credit on the other questions. On Monday I will have to drag myself away from the Obama campaign office for 3-4 hours to calculate final grades and upload them to our computer system. Other than that required absence from Obama headquarters I will be there until the results come in on Tuesday night.

There is a whole, whole lot of excitement about Obama in Bloomington. Today was a huge day for getting volunteers to go door-to-door throughout the county and we had 3 members of City Council and 1 member of the County Council who spoke briefly to the volunteers and who then picked up walksheets and got out there and went door-to-door themselves. We have terrific people helping in Bloomington who've traveled from Ohio and Iowa to be here.

We have 3 days. Just 3 days. It can't go fast enough and then again I wish time would stretch so we could do more and more and more...

I know you all have done this work in other states and I am so grateful to you. :hug:

A final thought: I never knew my feet could hurt so much! I wake up in the morning thinking, "Geez, my feet hurt!" :eyes:

A few more minutes and I think I will have wound down enough to go to :boring:

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We got our ballots in Oregon so now it's call call call and make sure everybody has voted. The great thing about mail-in is they mark off the ballots as they're returned, so we can target the exact people who haven't voted yet. Much easier than what you're facing. :hug:

some day you will look on these days as the good ol days

wish I could give you a foot massage.

you will have missed this in the morning so I hope that Sunday was great.

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Given all of your OTHER responsibilities right now, you are a superstar.

My son was in Gary doing voter registration for Obama with a group from UW in Madison, so I know you're getting support in Indiana from lots of directions.

Obama has an incredible team working for him in every state.

I said in another blog this campaign is ours and taking back the country is going to be hard work and we all have to pitch in.

On top of other things I did today it was first day to ride scooter to work for the spring/summer as finally got warm enough and I put on my two Obama stickers that say, Obama for a brighter tomorrow with a great pic of a sun. Then first person I checked into small hotel I work at said he saw my scooter, he was a republican and we actually had a decent talk.

My goal in moving to this rural area 3 yrs ago from blue CA was I need to help change the parts of america that thought Bush was a good idea.

I don't know if any of you remember but we talked about this in 2004 right after Kerry lost. People were angry that lived in the red states but we all talked about things we could do to turn them blue. Dean's 50 state strategy that the DNC keeps fighting was the perfect start to it.

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I am working it here in NC.

You can't even imagine how much we appreciate what you have done.

for Obama and ALL of us.

Thanks for working so hard, Indy.

Take a hot bath and rest. I only did a morning of it here in Texas and I was tired, but it was cool - I met alot of nice people.

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David

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