Waiting for the world to stop
Feb. 3rd, 2006 10:34 amOh, so this is how it feels to almost have a nervous breakdown. Good to know.
The panic attack was genuine. It's been just me for the past two weeks here at work, in this library, and you cannot run a law library efficiently with just one person physically there. I can route calls and emails to our New York office, but when it comes to immediate snap decisions, it falls on me. Therefore, I nearly exploded when the attorney I had been struggling to find certain books for got a book I had borrowed from an inter-library loan, realized it was the wrong book, called me as soon as I got in, and asked me to find the right book as soon as possible. I would have been fine, if I hadn't temporarily lost the catalog of ILL books and firms that have them, burst into tears, composed myself, had a minor simple partial, and kept my voice from shaking as I called a dozen local law libraries looking for this book. One of them had it. I sent a messenger to get it.
I hope to gods the attorney is satisfied. She did thank me and apologize for the mess, but I feel horribly guilty and I feel as though I let her down. My boss should be back on Monday. I still have not put away all these books that need shelving. I have not finished sorting through the week's mail. I feel like a failure. I don't want to get in trouble on Monday. I know, rationally, that I won't, I'll be okay, Ray knows that I can't handle everything on my own like this.
Still... know what I mean?
The panic attack was genuine. It's been just me for the past two weeks here at work, in this library, and you cannot run a law library efficiently with just one person physically there. I can route calls and emails to our New York office, but when it comes to immediate snap decisions, it falls on me. Therefore, I nearly exploded when the attorney I had been struggling to find certain books for got a book I had borrowed from an inter-library loan, realized it was the wrong book, called me as soon as I got in, and asked me to find the right book as soon as possible. I would have been fine, if I hadn't temporarily lost the catalog of ILL books and firms that have them, burst into tears, composed myself, had a minor simple partial, and kept my voice from shaking as I called a dozen local law libraries looking for this book. One of them had it. I sent a messenger to get it.
I hope to gods the attorney is satisfied. She did thank me and apologize for the mess, but I feel horribly guilty and I feel as though I let her down. My boss should be back on Monday. I still have not put away all these books that need shelving. I have not finished sorting through the week's mail. I feel like a failure. I don't want to get in trouble on Monday. I know, rationally, that I won't, I'll be okay, Ray knows that I can't handle everything on my own like this.
Still... know what I mean?