Adulting! (Not adultery)
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baratronToday I have been ADULTING like a PRO. I called the Student Loans Company about the threatening letter which they sent me. To be fair, I have an income-contingent student loan, and they received information from the Inland Revenue to say that I was no longer employed, so they wanted to know where I got my income from, on the basis that I might be secretly earning a small fortune and secreting it away somewhere.
I still have to fill in the damned form, but at least they know that I called them and I'm not trying to avoid paying back the loan.
I also called EDF Energy to get moved onto a fixed-rate tariff that will cost £76 per month instead of the variable-rate tariff which costs £100 per month which we have been on because I didn't have the spoons to deal with it before. Now I am drenched in sweat and I don't think it's only because of the weather.
Why is adulting so exhausting? I mean, neurotypical non-depressed people manage it all the time.
Alexa thinks it's because of tuits/spoons. Adulting uses lots, and they have more of them. I think that explains how they're able to do it more easily, but it doesn't explain why it should take so many bleedin' spoons to do pretty straightforward tasks. I mean, it shouldn't be that difficult to either call or go through the website to change your energy tariff, when you're already being a lazy git and staying with the same energy company because you don't have the energy to start looking around for better deals. But apparently it is? (Actually, I did forget you could do it through the website. That would have made it a lot easier.)
I also still have to deal with Student Finance England and my university, but this also requires dealing with my doctor. I need proof that I've been too sick to be studying for the past year as well as proof that I am now recovered enough to go back. It's a bit too much considering I've been revoltingly ill with bronchitis for the past couple of weeks. I have recovered enough to only need double my usual asthma meds, rather than 6-8 times my usual dose plus oral steroids. But I've only been out of the house 5 times since 14th June, and two of those were doctor's appointments.
Blargh blargh blargh. So much ill. So little energy.
I still have to fill in the damned form, but at least they know that I called them and I'm not trying to avoid paying back the loan.
I also called EDF Energy to get moved onto a fixed-rate tariff that will cost £76 per month instead of the variable-rate tariff which costs £100 per month which we have been on because I didn't have the spoons to deal with it before. Now I am drenched in sweat and I don't think it's only because of the weather.
Why is adulting so exhausting? I mean, neurotypical non-depressed people manage it all the time.
Alexa thinks it's because of tuits/spoons. Adulting uses lots, and they have more of them. I think that explains how they're able to do it more easily, but it doesn't explain why it should take so many bleedin' spoons to do pretty straightforward tasks. I mean, it shouldn't be that difficult to either call or go through the website to change your energy tariff, when you're already being a lazy git and staying with the same energy company because you don't have the energy to start looking around for better deals. But apparently it is? (Actually, I did forget you could do it through the website. That would have made it a lot easier.)
I also still have to deal with Student Finance England and my university, but this also requires dealing with my doctor. I need proof that I've been too sick to be studying for the past year as well as proof that I am now recovered enough to go back. It's a bit too much considering I've been revoltingly ill with bronchitis for the past couple of weeks. I have recovered enough to only need double my usual asthma meds, rather than 6-8 times my usual dose plus oral steroids. But I've only been out of the house 5 times since 14th June, and two of those were doctor's appointments.
Blargh blargh blargh. So much ill. So little energy.
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Date: 2016-07-22 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 03:40 pm (UTC)I also think that for me adulting involves so many little tasks - and so many that are never actually finished, they have to be done over and over again. It's what leads to me complaining about being nibbled to death by ducks.
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Date: 2016-07-22 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-23 02:30 am (UTC)1) it generally involves dealing with people and people are hard
2) the stakes are actually high, which applies a spoon surcharge to everything
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Date: 2016-07-24 10:49 pm (UTC)I think some things that neuroatypical or spoonie types find hard are hard cos for impairment related reasons some things are more difficult than others - even more we consider that we have fewer spoons and waaay more bullshit to spend our spoons on for disability nonsense.
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Date: 2016-07-24 10:49 pm (UTC)