Leave Without Pay? At This Point...

So I am waiting for someone - anyone - to get here who can approve my leave so that I can buy a flippin' flight to MI to see my flippin' niece. (Northwest, as shitty as they are [no more free pretzels? wtf?], is currently offering round trip flights for just over $100. I need to get on this bandwagon). I love that the few higher-ups in this office who actually have the authority to allow me to skip out of town have so much of their own time saved up that they don't come to work unless it is almost noon o'clock. What. Ever. COME TO WORK! GAH!