Victory!

I have emerged victorious! The enormous, skyline-of-New-York-style piles of textbooks and workbooks have been sorted. Textbooks have been checked in and graffiti has disappeard under erasers and white-out (except for one egregious example which I just gave up on and removed from the catalog. When the profanity is on the cover, there's not much white-out can do). I have sorted through the workbooks, and the ones with writing in (call it two-thirds of the total) have been thrown away.

All that actually remains is to take the untouched workbooks back to the textbook room and divide the written-in ones into two trash bags so the bottom doesn't rip out when the janitor tries to lift it.

I can see the surface of my desk! I can see the door while sitting at my desk! I was beginning to doubt that this day would ever come!