It's just hit me. I've had an incredible ~9 months of enforced leave (recovery from hip replacement. Feeling great, thanks for asking!), mini sabbatical and annual leave. Coming back to work (teaching+admin) in Sept has been a real shock, though. I'm overwhelmed by how much total BS is normalised >

bureaucratic processes that are so far from being fit-for-purpose that it takes months and tens to hundreds of emails to resolve simple problems. Academics acting as a single conduit of information while admin teams are repeatedly redesigned so they don't have a single point of failure, yet still >