Helluva day

I slept in (until 7) because I'd been battling a relentless headach for the past two days and hadn't slept worth a darn. Should've known it wasn't gonna be a great day when the only clean undies I could find were of the lacy thong variety. Nothing like feeling your underwear up your butt all day to make you chipper.

Work was, like the last two weeks, insane. I have a huge to-do list, and it isn't getting any shorter because little fires keep popping up. And it doesn't help that three of my bosses were out of town this week and they all loaded me up before they left. I've been the only attorney in the office for the better part of the week.

On one of my cases, the opposing attorney wants to turn every single step a battle. For instance, I sent her a request for a privilege log, and she responded by informing me that my request would generate additional attorney's fees that my client would be obligated to pay. (I was tempted to reply back that I admired her optimism, but I just ignored her instead.) I just don't understand why this case is generating so much hostility. Most of the lawyers I work with are pretty decent people and realize that a wise lawyer chooses her battles.

And my secretary has lost her freaking mind. At 2:00 this afternoon I got a Fed Ex containing disks that I have been waiting for and need to review this weekend. I asked my secretary to please make copies of the disks by the end of the day and told her that if she did not have time to get it done to hand it off to someone else (since all of their attorneys are out of town.)

She waited until 5:15 to start burning the disks (after her 30 minute cell phone conversation). Then she ran into a problem. So she called the computer guy and was rude and hateful to him yelling about how she had to leave immediately (she leaves at 5:30). So she finally comes into my office and informs me that I am just going to have to take the originals home because she can't make copies. And I asked her, perfectly calmly, "Did you ask anybody else to help out with this earlier in the day?" And she said, "I didn't have time for that." And I said, "asking for help earlier in the day would have prevented problems late in the day." And she started yelling and said, "I work like a fucking dog and you don't appreciate it and you just think I'm too slow." And she threw the CDs at me and stormed out of the office! WTF???

Besides the complete inappropriateness of her actions, can someone explain how advising her to give part of her work to someone else is accusing her of being slow or overworking her? (And yes, I had already spoken to the other secretaries about helping out this week, so there was no problem with her asking for help.)

And, oh yes, I gave her three things to do today. Two letters that I drafted that she had to cut and paste onto letterhead and fax, and a cut-and-paste depo notice that went out certified. Yep, that's a tough life. I swear I'm getting more pissed the longer I sit and think about it.

So I stayed at work until 9:00 to try to knock out some of my to-dos and then got stuck in traffic for an hour. Dead standstill because there were some flares left in the road from an earlier accident.

Finally made it home by 10. Told hubby that I wish there was a bar where you could wear your pajama pants, because I really needed a drink, but I really wanted to put on my comfy pants. So he volunteered to go to the liquor store to get tequila and a margarita mixer. But apparently you can't buy liquor here after 9:00 pm!! WTF?? I think I knew that somewhere in the back of my mind, but obviously, I don't buy liquor very often.

So poor DH got out in the cold for nothing, and I'm stuck with a bottle of red wine. Or the vodka in the freezer--although I've avoided vodka ever since the Russian wedding.