Guess the roving deputy's age!

That's the game that the judges and supervisors at the sixteen polling places we visited played when my partner "Jack" and I went to check on them and make sure everything was running smoothly. Most hypothesized that I had to take the day off of school to help out, and one voter thought I was doing it for community service!
I stayed at my folks' Monday night, and got up at 4:15 in the morning since dad and I had to be to the Board of Elections Commissioners (BOEC) office at five. I was able to have a donut and a bagel with cream cheese before I had to leave. My partner was Jack, an older gentleman about 75 who had been doing this for years. Thank goodness I had somebody who knew what he was doing. ^_^
We went to ten polling places to drop off some information they needed, then to six other places for the morning visit, had breakfast at Hardee's, then made a morning visit to the first ten places we dropped info off to. We stopped by his house (since we were in his area) so he could empty his trunk, and we were off to our drop off point, a YMCA-type rec center. Two judges from 16 other polling places dropped off ballot boxes at about 11:00, and we took it all back to the BOEC with a police escort trailing behind.
After dropping off the ballot boxes, we visited all sixteen polling places again, and came back to the rec center to rest. There was a couch in the game room, so I fell asleep for a couple of hours while Jack read the paper and eventually fell asleep as well. I was up at about four or so, and played my Game Boy for a while until Jack woke up, and he went to eat lunch, then ran home to get some stuff done. I played for a while longer and went across the street to DQ and had something to eat (I highly recommend the strawberry cheesequake blizzard), and went back to the rec center to hang out.
About 6:30 or so, Jack came back, and we went out to wait for the polls to close at 7:00 and to wait for the judges to come back with the ballot boxes and some other stuff, which we loaded into the back of the car. And off we went to the BOEC to drop everything off and go home.
I said goodbye to Rosie and I went back with dad to hang out with my family. I got home a little after midnight this morning, and was asleep within an hour. Needless to say, it was tough running on four hours of sleep yesterday morning, and I was still tired after my two hour nap in the afternoon. But I slept well last night. Then tonight I get to stay the night at the condo to wait for the termite guy to come at 8:00 tomorrow morning. But it'll be nice to be alone for awhile! ^_^
P.S. I beat dad to the BOEC for the morning drop off, but he beat me there for the evening drop off. We would have gotten there sooner, but we had to wait on an old folks' home that didn't get there until almost ten to eight. Grrr. And what really sucked was that we didn't have checklists for the last six places, and nobody got a judges oath and affidavit sheet. We had to imrovise on the checklists and write it down on different pieces of paper, and get copies of the oath sheets and pass them off later.
The best part is that I get paid for what I did! That should come later this month.