Another student application was being sent out. She hated the fact that she had to start from the root level up in the school system. They all had left, those bastards, all of them because they didn't trust her. New professors were now taking their spots and there she was, swamped by paperwork.
Hearing a knock, she lifted her head and cleared her desk with a simple wave of her hand, everything stacking up nearly and orderly. She knew it wasn't Tess, she never knocked.
"Come in" she called out.