Activism Off-Switch

It’s nearly 21:30 on a Bank Holiday Monday. People I know are going to bed. I’m not.

I’m where I have been since noon (less the hour I took off to get food shopping for the week and eat something) – sat in front of a computer, entering canvass data into EARS, the database system that many Liberal Democrats groups use, ready for the last few mailshots before The Big Day.

It’s at times like this that I begin to wonder if I need an activism off-switch.

At first, it was mind-numbing, and it feel like my brain was turning to mush and dripping out of my ears, but now I know all the keyboard shortcuts and can do it without even looking at the screen, and it’s almost fun.

…which perhaps reinforces the point about the off-switch.