So at midnight last night (or I guess early this morning), Vermont Stage Company's fourth annual online auction closed.  This was excellent news, but also meant that I had to head into the office at midnight to oversee the proceedings.  Fortunately, I had much better luck "closing" the auctions items this year than last (I had some trouble with them re-opening themselves) and was excited to learn that we beat our fundraising target for the event!  But this, of course, meant that I had hours of credit card processing to do (it's amazing how long it takes to process tens of credit cards) and lots of emails to write: to let the winning bidders know they won, to tell them how to pick up their items, to tell the donors know who won their products, etc.  Last year the auction closed on a night that I had been on the running crew of the show (and we had a lead actor break his leg before the show and Mark had to fill in).  And for reasons I only vaguely remember Ray spent 3 hours sleeping in a chair in my office.  I think there had been an EMC event/party that night, and with the one car, he had come to the office afterwards...

Well, this year I didn't have any company (which can be creepy at 3am when the elevator goes up and down and opens the doors and no one is there).  But, I did manage to get to sleep before 4 am!  This morning I came in (late and) invigorated and ready to rock.  My first task was sort out all the items so that when a winning bidder shows up, I can just had over what he/she won.  Without much searching.  Or waiting around.  It was an orange post-it-note frenzy, but the fruits of my labor filled up the four big tables we have in the conference room, and they are an organized wonder!