#life admin

[podgle]

Currently on the phone to the water company explaining why a 475% increase in our water usage is not feasible. So far it's taken 37 minutes of convincing to get them to reluctantly send out another meter reading engineer.

What an excellent use of everyone's time.

[aibidil]

This is so basic but I’m sharing anyway because it took me way too long to do it. You’ve gotta keep track of shit like immunizations like this, esp if you have kids. Make a spreadsheet (this is in Notion, which is nice bc it’s really easy to filter by patient, vaccine type, etc, and set reminders). You can put in future doses (oldest kid will need the second meningitis jab in 2026). Make a line for brand, reaction, where you got it, etc. Kid got the updated COVID vaccine yesterday and is feeling shitty today—I was able to instantaneously see that he had a very similar reaction in 2023. I put in all my and my partner’s childhood vaccines from the records we had, so this goes back to the early 80s! When someone asks if a kid had a shot, I can answer very quickly and easily.

It’s really the little things like this, y’all, especially if your brain doesn’t do a good job of keeping track of these things without some scaffolding.

[saintfennel]

It's been a weird day for me I don't think it's been a good day for you

[soulst1c3]

[ Ooc: 

Class starts up again for me last week, after a much-needed spring break last week! 

I don’t think this will impact my activity - and tbh sometimes my activity goes up when I’m in class, because I tend to do better when I have a little structure - but if replies are a little slower than usual, especially on dash, that’s why. 

Also! Tumblr notifications haven’t been fantastic, and I realized that I’ve missed a few asks, and a few tags/answers to asks. We’ll prioritize these - but if ever too much time passes and you don’t see a reply to a tag/mention/ask you were excited about, please feel free to DM me on Discord. 

Thanks, y’all!

-- Del ]

[canarycontessa]

I’m trying to do a bit of life admin around my grocery shopping and plan out seasonal menus. Like whatever produce is in season that month, I’ll already have a handful of recipes to rotate between and already have the bulk of my list written out. Doing it this way helps me cut down on decision fatigue, keeps costs lower (buying in season is always cheaper than out), lead to a more balanced overall diet while still letting me flex my creativity in the kitchen

[le-malaise-du-moment]

12.8.19 // afternoon

Watching life admin day-type YouTube videos to make up for acting like an undergrad last night. A postdoc friend of ours got a job at his dream school and organized a bar crawl last night. It was the most fun I've had out in a long time, and we stayed out until the bars closed. As a result, I probably fell asleep around 4, and I didn't get up until noon.

I made a conscious decision to not beat myself up for that before we really started last night though. I know that, even when I go to bed early, getting up at 6am to start doing work and effectively planning, etc doesn't happen, so I should not place that expectation on myself to do it today. It just isn't reasonable to do so, and being anxious about it wasn't going to help either.

I'm getting more into low-impact lifestyle videos and productivity videos, but I know I need to be careful or else I'll fall into a trap of placing too many expectations on myself. I'm finding I like lavendaire a lot.

Today is about getting my space in order, calmly approaching the fellowship application that's due Tuesday, and taking care of myself.

[c0ntemplations]

when i was younger i would always wonder why my mom was always ‘running errands’ and now i get it. i really really get it. life admin takes up an insane amount of time. 

[dxmedstudent]

Being an adult...

Is doing nothing but life admin all evening, and still having so much more life admin to do, that you’ll have to spend half your Friday off sorting it out. Because you have to call several people, no doubt spend ages on the line, and you won’t have the time to do that whilst you’re oncall this week. I spent my spare time from my late start today on trying to book an appointment for a patient who went home over the weekend, and that took a truly breathtaking amount of time to book because nobody (the switchboard, the clinic, and patient) seems to like picking up the phone. It really shouldn’t take hours to book someone into one simple clinic. Still, at least it’s done. What makes my life admin marathon even better is the fact some of these calls have conditions attached, like “please call us ASAP but only call between 1.30 and 3pm”, as if everyone is sitting around waiting to call them within their tiny window of opportunity. Rather than the reality that they are dealing with people with actual busy jobs without predictable breaks, and in which I can’t just run off to deal with life admin because I have to stop my patients from potentially dying. I don’t expect secretaries or rota coordinators or whatever to be working in the middle of the night, but I just wish these things could be more flexible. Still, it’ll get done, eventually.