10 Things to Do When You're Left 'In Charge' at the Post
Created | Updated May 15, 2011

You may have noticed a few differences in the Post today. This is because your hardworking, conscientious, and above all competent Editor-in-Chief has scarpered off to a h2g2 Meet, leaving the lunatic in charge of the asylum.
Of course, this leads me to peer around at the office equipment from under my tinfoil hat, and muse on the subject of…
10 Things to Do When You're Left 'In Charge' at the Post
10. Collect all KB's empty beer bottles. The deposit money will pay for your next outing.
9. Read Beatrice's 'private' email. Private – hah! I know you're getting love letters from oddly-named Researchers.
8. Photoshop Willem's image into all of Bel's Turkey photos. Then send them to her family. Let 'em wonder.
7. Send naughty 'mash notes' to all the Moderators. Sign them 'KB'.
6. Find Titania's candy stash and eat all the chocolate. Leave IOUs. Sign them 'Bel'.
5. Let the cat play with the GuideML. Call it 'a new site design'.
4. Equip all the desk chairs with whoopee cushions that say 'Prof Animal Chaos was here'.
3. Announce that the Acrostic Challenge has now been renamed 'Vogon Poetry Slam'.
2. Spam the h2g2 Eds with 57 Gheorgheniplex cartoons. Demand that they all be blobbed by Thursday.
1. Sit back, chuckle, rub your hands, and go 'mwahaha', in the complete assurance that NOBODY will ever leave you 'in charge' AGAIN.

I assume you all join me in hoping Bel comes back soon. – DG