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   Shakti

   March 21, 2018

   I now know that youth is the time when you have so few appointments that you can remember them without writing them down.

   I was never young then. The tax person at work, HR, & union organizer are non-work related?

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      Clarissa

      March 21, 2018

      I mean they are not part of my job duties. It’s my choice to meet them. It’s not like a department meeting where I have to be. Even when I don’t want to. And I never want to.

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         Shakti

         March 21, 2018

         That’s interesting. I don’t put appointments in buckets like that. If I’m at a required meeting at work or I go to HR because I want to talk about my benefits (for example) I put both in the ‘work appointment’ bucket in my organizational schema.
         Now I might make further distinctions within that bucket (“directly relevant”,”administrivia”, “bullshit”, ) but they’re still in the same category for me.

         I assume all of the appointments you mentioned are for yourself (with the exception of the pediatrician). I’m not at a point in my life where I need to remember appointments or social events for other people. God help anyone who isn’t a child who expects that or needs that of me.

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            Clarissa

            March 21, 2018

            Yeah, it’s all me. I’m high-maintenance these days. N is a lot better at keeping track of his own stuff than I am at mine.

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