Help! I'm drowning......I'm drowning!

So, as everyone and their second cousin knows...I am a procrastinator. I am the person who waits until the very last minute to buy Christmas presents. I am the person who flies out the door five minutes late without eating breakfast because I waited for the snooze to hit me five minutes later than the mean earlier bell. I am the person who just wants to get home and then has to race into the bathroom when I get there. Yes, I have procrastination down to an art form.



It really isn't that I'm lazy. No, I'm quite productive. I just choose to accomplish that same thing...a little bit later.

At times however, this haunts me. These are the times that I shake my fist in the air and shout silently but definitely seriously, "I WILL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!"

Behold, the filing at my desk...



These piles of paperwork are a taste of the greater pile. These, my friends, are the accumulation of four months of my work. They are the reminder of my daily toil sitting in neatly stacked form.

I loathe filing. I hate it more than almost anything (about as much as lima beans. Although, I would seriously think about eating a plate of the green legumes if it would get me out of the four feet of filing).

The thing is, we have two administrative assistants that we can employ to do this sort of task. But, with what I had on my desk...I'm just not that mean.

So, expecting a fairly slow day today, I dragged the special filing tool that someone in Finance loaned to me. After nine straight hours, I was able to put a huge dent in my filing.



I divided the paperwork into quarters and stuffed the papers in the appropriate spot. Granted, I still have about 7-10" of filing left...AND will still need to sort each file folder by date.

But, I can do that later!