that awkward moment... : alphabetize

that awkward moment when the only task your employer has for you to do is to alphabetize as stack of papers... the same stack of papers you had already alphabetized two days before.

• do you give the stack back to the employer and say it's already been done?
• or do you accept the stack, go to the work room for a reasonable amount of time that is appropriate for alphabetizing, and then return graciously?

What did I do, you ask?
The latter. Because I didn't want my job to get cut under the pretense that I wasn't doing anything. So that is exactly what I did, something. I re-alphabetized the alphabetized. It just depends on the day. Sometimes every professor has task; sometimes every professor gives me the stink eye because I am hounding them to employ my creativity and ambition... ambition to alphabetize.

If I have nothing else, at least I can alphabetize.
And alphabetize.
And alphabetize.