Random Scrap:
The office of the congress lady was located in the north part of San Francisco, in the quiet part of the piers, on a second floor of a low rise building. There was a restaurant downstairs, Phoenix, which would serve free coffee to all of the employees. The regular tasks would be to sit answering the phones and assigning cases to the appropriate case workers, after entering details into the computers. It also required noting down the topics that constituents would dial in about. The more regular ones would receive their own topics on a piece of paper in front of me and a tally of sets of five crossed lines to give an idea of how much interests each attracted. We would be told in advance, if because of debate on the floor, we should expect an increase number of calls. Those were usually more about passionate ones. Other than that most people called with their health problems and once in a while someone would to offer a vhs tape of sighting an UFO or asked to speak directly with the president. In the afternoons I would help Nicole to politely call various organisations and politely decline their invitations.