Back to treading water
Jul. 12th, 2019 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI awoke early this morning thinking about my US tax situation again. It's very frustrating. My forms were filled out by early March but I had to file for an extension because I still haven't managed to get this simple Certificate of Coverage document out of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to attach to Schedule SE; the Federal Benefits Unit (FBU) at the US Embassy have been no help at all so far. If there is no useful movement this month then I shall escalate to my Member of Parliament. For many reasons I would rather like to move to some isolated community composed of those of us who have enough of a semblance of competence and diligence to generally serve others reliably. So much hassle is caused by people who for whatever reason fail to perform a simple job; in my more unsympathetic moments I might feel inclined to assign them to the same level of Hell as those who respond to what I say in a manner that suggests they didn't read it. Indeed, one of my interactions with the FBU back in Spring was me saying,
I took today off work as we are all soon off to the Dundee Waterfront to visit the RRS Discovery and the V&A Museum Of Design; the children have been inside neither. With my early start I suppose I'll feel tired for it but it should still be pleasant and interesting. It's a nice morning but is forecast to become a bit rainy at times.
My life seems back to keeping on top of things but not making anywhere near enough useful progress. I need to be better at doing important things that are not yet urgent. I am back to measuring my achievements in terms of trivial chores like if I am bothering to hang up my clothes or use an interdental brush as part of my bedtime routine, hence my recent failure to say much here. It's hard to even get the headspace to try to figure out my issue: when I do have spare time I feel enough tired in a zoned-out kind of way that I don't even bring to mind easy things I could do. I am either busy with tasks, whether at home or at work, or just trying to recover from them.
While this doesn't explain my lack of productivity at home, there is a fair bit for me to watch on television at the moment which at least affords welcome distraction. Having now finished
The DWP aren't sending me this certificate, what do I do?and them saying,
It's the DWP who send you the certificate.I suppose that still helped them to achieve their response time target.
I took today off work as we are all soon off to the Dundee Waterfront to visit the RRS Discovery and the V&A Museum Of Design; the children have been inside neither. With my early start I suppose I'll feel tired for it but it should still be pleasant and interesting. It's a nice morning but is forecast to become a bit rainy at times.
My life seems back to keeping on top of things but not making anywhere near enough useful progress. I need to be better at doing important things that are not yet urgent. I am back to measuring my achievements in terms of trivial chores like if I am bothering to hang up my clothes or use an interdental brush as part of my bedtime routine, hence my recent failure to say much here. It's hard to even get the headspace to try to figure out my issue: when I do have spare time I feel enough tired in a zoned-out kind of way that I don't even bring to mind easy things I could do. I am either busy with tasks, whether at home or at work, or just trying to recover from them.
While this doesn't explain my lack of productivity at home, there is a fair bit for me to watch on television at the moment which at least affords welcome distraction. Having now finished
Stranger Things(2016) we are working our way through the latest of shows like
Dark(2017) and
Legion(2017) before returning to the last of
Jessica Jones(2015).
