It’s me again, The Pioneer’s Managing Editor. Enjoy liveblog number two––a faithful account of the goings on of the evening of April 18, 2012 and the early morning of April 19. (Read the first one here)

5:04 p.m. I arrive in the Pio office.

5:05 p.m. Senior Reporter and Editor-in-Chief Elect Rachel Alexander tells me I should liveblog tonight because instead of lettuce, this evening she has stinging nettles. Yes. To eat.

5:06 p.m. “I found a bug in my stinging nettles!”

5:09 p.m. News Editor Karah Kemmerly arrives and immediately asks where the couch cushions are. They are, of course, in Editor-in-Chief Patricia Vanderbilt’s back office (she lives in there). I fetch them.

5:13 p.m. I erase the remnants of last week’s check marks from the master whiteboard.

5:14 p.m. Production Manager Ted Hendershot and Production Associate Maddie Munn hover around a computer analyzing minute differences no one else can see between freakily similar fonts. Rachel watches on.

5:18 p.m. Rachel returns to her stinging nettles. “Oh hey. There’s a spider in here! It’s like a whole tiny ecosystem.”

5:18 p.m. “Wash your greens” –– Ted

5:19 p.m. Commence vehement debate about whether or not stinging nettles qualify as “greens.”

5:20 p.m. Ted’s facial hair grows in a really sweet swirl pattern!!!

5:24 p.m. I start editing my résumé to submit it for a copy editing job that I most likely won’t get due to timing complications; they want someone long-term, I can only work through September because I’m going to France in the fall.

5:33 p.m. The sky turns somber; Rachel turns on the lights.

5:48 p.m. Rachel and News Editor Shelly Le chat about a potential upcoming investigative article.

5:50 p.m. “I’m going to have to learn how to copy other people’s handwriting if I’m going to become a spy. That’s currently career plan number three. I’ll also have to become immune to several poisons . . . ” –– Karah

5:59 p.m. After a failed attempt to get dinner (the Taste of Sicily line is too long), I open the windows because something is wrong with Reid’s master thermostat. As a result we’re made privy to the sounds of Renn Faire practice.

6:02 p.m. “It’s hot. Can I just take off my shirt?” Opinion Editor Alex Brott has arrived. Ted whips out his iPhone to take incriminating photos.

6:04 p.m. Tricia arrives.

6:05 – 6:16 p.m. Circuit meeting number one.

6:18 p.m. Alex’s shirt is back on. He leaves the office to scam flex dollars off of Shelly or Karah.

6:24 p.m. Rachel breaks into her goat cheese. I partake. It is decadent.

6:31 p.m. I instruct Sports Editor and Managing Editor Elect Libby Arnosti in the mystic ways of Google doc content lists.

6:40 p.m. Circuit meeting number two.

7:09 p.m. Feature Editor Kelsey Kennedy and I voyage downstairs to acquire our potentially last-ever Taste of Sicily.

7:17 p.m. Taste of Sicily acquired, Kelsey and I return to the office. ASWC President Elect Kayvon Behroozian is visiting.

7:19 p.m. “Oh my God! This spider’s weaving a web in here!” –– Rachel and the nettles again

7:22 p.m. Tricia asks me to update the matriculation list Google doc.

7:25 p.m. Kelsey and I have a biting discussion about our history class.

7:37 p.m. Alex proposes that Rachel think about purchasing high-quality speakers for the office when budgeting for next year. Rachel tells him to create a Google doc called “Alex’s silly budget requests” for her perusal.

7:49 p.m. Ted and Rachel voice concerns about an illustration that doesn’t correspond to the article it’s supposed to support. CRISIS.

7:52 p.m. Tricia’s going to do a replacement illustration!!!!

7:55 p.m. Tricia and I try to rewrite the main Opinion headline.

7:58 p.m. Photo Editor Ethan Parrish arrives. WITH SNACKS (and resplendent in tie-dye).

7:59 p.m. Ted expresses his desire for polar bears to become extinct. Voices of protest from most everyone else, especially Rachel and Alex.

8:03 p.m. Sports Editor Elect Pam London and I tweak a Sports headline.

8:07 p.m. The lively sounds of “The Popcorn Dance” spice up the office.

8:09 p.m. Chief Copy Editor Jean Marie Dreyer arrives apologetic for being 9 minutes late.

8:18 p.m. Shelly distributes a sociology survey to various editors. It involves lots of ranking of characteristics and circling of numbers.

8:31 p.m. I work on my résumé some more and verbally lament having to write a cover letter.

8:47 p.m. Tricia finishes her illustration only to learn that they way Ted has laid out the page doesn’t require one.

9:05 p.m. I realize that it’s too late to go downstairs and get ice water from Café ’66. Instead I bring down dirty dishes/baskets so they won’t rot indefinitely in the office. I find Feature Editor Alyssa Fairbanks downstairs buying an energy drink. She is annoyed that layout of her page hasn’t been started yet.

9:15 p.m. Libby and I write the correction to issue 10 and email it to Ted so he can place it on the page.

9:18 p.m. I help Alex finally rewrite that main Opinion headline.

9:30 p.m. “Oh my God! Goat cheese! Where?!?” Alex has discovered the existence and up-for-grabs-ness of Rachel’s goat cheese three hours behind schedule.

9:35 p.m. Backpage Editor Elect Kyle Seasly arrives looking dapper. He has a meeting with Rachel.

9:38 p.m. Jean Marie tells me to read her most recent WhitmanEncounters post.

9:41 p.m. Illustration Editor Binta Loos-Diallo, Jean Marie and I giggle and gasp and giggle over “35 Unexplainable Photos of Cats.”

9:52 p.m. Libby, Jean Marie and Shelly read over my liveblog thus far. Libby and Shelly have never visited WhitmanEncounters. We remedy this immediately.

9:58 p.m. Shelly asks if the only bathrooms in Reid are the ones on the second floor and on the main floor. I tell her there are some in the basement. She decides to test them out. We all think this is strange and wonder why. Then she notices I’m going to liveblog about this and begs me not to. I do it anyway.

10:00 p.m. Alyssa is still annoyed because her page still hasn’t been started.

10:02 p.m. Ethan is laughing by himself over in the corner. He’s watching “The Hangover” on his laptop.

10:04 p.m. Rachel, Tricia, Libby and I try to schedule a joint EIC/Managing editor training meeting. We all have crazy schedules and conflicts so we decide to meet now.

10:06 p.m. Jean Marie compliments Libby’s taste in music. I don’t hear because I’m Googling how to highlight every other row in a Google doc spreadsheet. Libby hits me and tells me to liveblog about it.

10:10 p.m. Alyssa, Libby and I have a cute Managing Editors of past, present and future moment.

10:12 p.m. Web Editor Sara Rasmussen arrives looking frazzled. Apparently she just fell on the stairs at Web Content Editor Josh Goodman.

10:20 p.m. Secret EIC/Managing Editor meeting commences with Tricia announcing that the music we’re listening to is a Hindi jam whose lyrics say “I’m too sexy for you, keep your hands off me.” I respond that this is what I tell Tricia, daily.

10:36 p.m. Ethan and I make faces at each other through the glass separating the back office from the main office.

12:17 a.m. Secret EIC/Managing Editor meeting finally ends. I feel like I’ve missed most of production night.

12:26 p.m. I sit on the couch next to Sara and nuzzle her.

12:37 a.m. Libby leans over me to amass the darts from the dartboard. I steal her keys from her pocket.

12:42 a.m. After Jean Marie incorrectly identifies the magnetic end of the darts, Libby decides to throw the darts tail first.

12:46 a.m. Tricia announces we’re done. How did that happen? Ooops…