Twenty-one years at the organization. Eleven years in this office. Decades of binders, research material, reports, and contracts. As I start to remove all trace of my having occupied this office, I have a mountain of a task ahead of me. I should have been reviewing and purging all along the way, but with a couple book shelves ready to hold yet one more binder, I let them accumulate. There is no turning back now. I am trying to make sure I don't throw anything of current or archival value, though most anything current probably has an electronic version. That is my task tomorrow-to clean and organize electronic files into neat and organized accessible folder for my mangers and my successor. I take a lot of pride in the work I have done here, and I want the person that takes my role to feel like they can start with success. I also don't want to be known as the crazy hoarder lady. Here are a few pictures at the beginning of the sort and purge. Let this be a lesson to any of you procrastinating or overfilling your shelves. You too may have to tackle a massive mountain someday.
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| Shelves of pictures, desk with piles. |
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| Recycle bin number 1. |
