Frustrated!

So I cleared my schedule to work on prospectus this weekend...  Only to receive a request, very nicely phrased and disguised as a favor but still a request, for data analysis from one of the top administrators.  The original coding must have been done by somebody totally ignorant.  Why would anybody in their right mind enter several variables into one column?!?!  I spent all day recoding and figuring out how to analyze these data.  So tired -- and frustrated... wasn't able to do any of my own writing!!!