The computers keep crashing because the circuits are overloaded. Clinton slumps into a chair in her tiny office off the main room, pulls off her earrings and begins attacking a stack of memos, some of them on the bill she wants to introduce next month to revive upstate New York's ailing economy. There were more meetings after the caucus lunch, including an important one with California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who offered advice on setting up a legislative office that can cope with the demands of a large state. Clinton is an obsessive organizer, but so far she's surrounded by administrative chaos. She's still putting together a computer system to handle the thousands of letters that are pouring in from constituents each week.
Home is just as hectic.
She may intend the Washington house to be a fund-raising salon, but friends insist she's focused for now only on making it livable for her mother Dorothy, who will be staying with her, for Chelsea's visits, and for her husband when he comes with his security detail. Talking to her, you get the sense that Clinton's frenetic schedule provides a kind of refuge from all those exit scandals. Maybe that will be enough to get her through the most difficult weeks any freshman could imagine. An AOL Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved.