saturday sighing

I'm at work, and have been for a couple of hours now. The plan is/was to get some of the god-awful mess that is my desk cleaned up, then maybe pick up a few household necessities before meeting my mother and aunt for a Mother's day supper at a lovely restaurant near her place. A lot of the mess is because I cannot keep a neat desk to save my soul, but even more is stuff that I've been hanging onto because it's stuff Puppy would normally have taken to file/make binders/etc. I can do most of it, although I can't do any policy logging because only the admin assistants have that access. Have I mentioned we still have no prospects for a new admin and the office is down three and a half admins (don't ask)? They knew all of them were leaving, even if only temporarily, but did they look for help before this all happened? Pffftt - don't be silly. It's really quite maddening, and the couple of admins the office has left are beyond overloaded - one of them is LBA and I know she's ready to blow, and possibly quit. She would help me in a heartbeat but I just don't want to do that to her.

Anyway, here I sit, trying to be good. I finish off a few things, try to do some filing and binder-making, and all that fun stuff. Well, when I go to find binders and files that should already be made, I can't locate them. Were they ever even made? I know that Puppy had a really bad habit of picking up filing but then just putting it into a huge pile on her desk (no one used to believe me that she did that - now they're finding piles of their own filing they thought was done months ago). I got tired of following up with her months before she was canned, and I guess now I'm paying the price. How the fuck am I supposed to clear up my area when there's nowhere for any of it to go? I'm at a complete loss because I'm just going in circles.

Bah. I just had to take a few minutes to vent and try to breathe again. I think maybe it's time to go buy a pop out of the machine in the kitchen. That should give me the energy to get through another few hours of this bullshit.