Dune Part 2 is this year's first big movie. It's an epic space opera that delivers plenty of spaceships and big explosions like any good sci-fi blockbuster should,

but it also tackles themes of rebellion, religion, and the use and abuse of political power.

That's a lot to chew on, so listen to NPR's pop-com. religion and the use and abuse of political power.

That's a lot to chew on, so listen to NPR's pop culture happy hour podcast.

You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

Hey everyone, I'm Chris Arnold in from Mary El Segura, and I'm sorry to bring this up, but it's true, it's tax season.

Have you done your taxes yet? And I know this is like the last thing that you want to do right now.

And besides, we've already got a lot of stuff on our plates. There's paying bills. There's dealing with like your health insurance company, why are they asking me to pay this thing that I think they should be paying?

It almost feels like adult homework. But homework that nobody really talks about. It really is striking how it's

invisible. We don't generally see it as labor. That's Elizabeth Emmons. She's a

Columbia law professor and she wrote a whole book on this concept which she calls Life Admin.

Here's her definition.

Life Admin is all the invisible office work that steals our time.

It's the kind of work that managers and secretaries get paid in an office to do, but that we all do invisibly and for free in our own lives.

Things like getting your car inspected, organizing your kids after school schedules and their carpools, taking your computer in to get fixed,

planning a family reunion, a big...

So it's a whole range of stuff that touches all areas of our lives, and there are so many ways that our society

is structured not to support us in dealing with this and often at our most challenging life moments

that's when we most need help with this and instead we're slammed with the worst of it.

It's also true that we don't help people on the brink of adulthood or in the transition to adulthood

with learning how to deal with this aspect of life.

You know, we need admin ed in schools.

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