I don't think she ought to be THAT relieved, because, god, I have so many irons in the fire right now...! Work is HELL. I supervise seven employees, which is basically the minimum that is needed to do all the work in our department easily. With six, we can scrape by, but it's hard. We had just replaced somebody, so she's brand-new and completely untrained, and then TWO of the others quit while I was gone (for different reasons). Right now I'm just flailing and trying to figure out how on earth we're going to get through the next few weeks. Needless to say, fanfic is taking a backseat to RL at the moment. (Though, tonight, I'm just answering LJ comments, reading your concrit emails, and NOT THINKING ABOUT WORK or my head will explode.)