Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 7 November, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 7 November, 2008

4 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			38h 21m 52s
Time Working:			31h 37m 21s
	Planned:			11h 56m 9s
		Projects/Tasks:			2h 57m 45s
		Meetings:			2h 28m 6s
		Reading/Research:			2h 15m 47s
		Communication:			4h 2m 59s
		House cleaning:			0h 11m 32s
	Unplanned:			6h 22m 16s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			2h 38m 24s
		Projects/Tasks:			3h 43m 52s
	Other Work:			13h 18m 56s
		Non-work Work:			10h 51m 57s
		Community Life:			2h 26m 59s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			6h 44m 31s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 35m 28s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 54m 20s


Time Working:			82.43%
	Planned:			37.74%
		Projects/Tasks:			24.82%
		Meetings:			20.68%
		Reading/Research:			18.96%
		Communication:			33.93%
		House cleaning:			1.61%
	Unplanned:			20.15%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			41.44%
		Projects/Tasks:			58.56%
	Other Work:			42.11%
		Non-work Work:			81.60%
		Community Life:			18.40%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			17.57%

*** Raw Data ***

11/03/2008 7:46:23 AM,ar,"",0
11/03/2008 7:52:09 AM,ph,"",346
11/03/2008 8:13:00 AM,ph,"msgs and some other requests that cmae in while i was out",1251
11/03/2008 8:18:03 AM,em,"helpdesk stuff",303
11/03/2008 9:32:25 AM,em,"",4462
11/03/2008 9:38:32 AM,re,"rss",367
11/03/2008 10:18:38 AM,cl,"monday",2406
11/03/2008 12:22:42 PM,mt,"bibls tory",7444
11/03/2008 1:17:11 PM,bk,"lunch",3269
11/03/2008 1:27:47 PM,re,"rss",636
11/03/2008 1:56:02 PM,em,"",1695
11/03/2008 2:15:09 PM,bk,"",1147
11/03/2008 2:38:42 PM,em,"",1413
11/03/2008 4:06:00 PM,tk,"email thinking",5238
11/03/2008 4:52:26 PM,tk,"mailing list",2786

11/05/2008 7:57:14 AM,ar,"",0
11/05/2008 8:05:49 AM,em,"",515
11/05/2008 8:57:57 AM,ph,"",3128
11/05/2008 10:27:40 AM,hr,"some dead computer work",5383
11/05/2008 10:45:14 AM,re,"rss",1054
11/05/2008 10:56:06 AM,bk,"coffee",652
11/05/2008 11:32:41 AM,nw,"bibl story",2195
11/05/2008 12:01:09 PM,nw,"bibl story",1708
11/05/2008 12:40:00 PM,nw,"bibl story",2331
11/05/2008 1:25:26 PM,bk,"lunch",2726
11/05/2008 1:27:37 PM,up,"phone answering message setting",131
11/05/2008 2:24:17 PM,nw,"bibl story",3400
11/05/2008 4:39:33 PM,ps,"home, break, sadly napless",8116
11/05/2008 8:01:07 PM,nw,"bibl story",12094

11/06/2008 8:10:27 AM,ar,"",0
11/06/2008 8:21:50 AM,em,"",683
11/06/2008 8:57:35 AM,iv,"asst",2145
11/06/2008 9:56:03 AM,re,"rss",3508
11/06/2008 10:17:59 AM,nw,"bibl story",1316
11/06/2008 10:25:04 AM,iv,"help requests",425
11/06/2008 10:39:18 AM,nw,"bible story",854
11/06/2008 11:25:12 AM,ps,"election stuff",2754
11/06/2008 11:45:04 AM,hr,"moodle gradebook",1192
11/06/2008 1:00:00 PM,cl,"forum",4496
11/06/2008 1:10:00 PM,iv,"settings",600
11/06/2008 1:34:02 PM,mt,"monthly",1442
11/06/2008 2:00:00 PM,ps,"help person stand up",1558
11/06/2008 2:15:00 PM,nw,"bibl story",900
11/06/2008 2:27:40 PM,tk,"moodle research",760
11/06/2008 2:37:17 PM,iv,"moodle quest",577
11/06/2008 2:50:21 PM,tk,"moodle gradebook question",784
11/06/2008 2:53:32 PM,ip,"spouse",191
11/06/2008 4:10:26 PM,iv,"so many things I'm not sure how to categorize them",4614
11/06/2008 4:20:05 PM,tk,"clean up some helpdesk stuff",579

11/07/2008 8:09:14 AM,ar,"",0
11/07/2008 8:14:23 AM,hc,"bootup tasks",309
11/07/2008 8:14:43 AM,ip,"password issue",20
11/07/2008 8:21:22 AM,em,"",399
11/07/2008 8:30:58 AM,iv,"password issues",576
11/07/2008 8:36:46 AM,nw,"bibl story",348
11/07/2008 9:16:58 AM,nw,"bibl story",2412
11/07/2008 9:34:41 AM,hr,"printer map",1063
11/07/2008 9:43:59 AM,nw,"biblstory",558
11/07/2008 9:50:47 AM,ps,"espn",408
11/07/2008 10:22:44 AM,cl,"seminary sampler",1917
11/07/2008 10:51:52 AM,up,"moodle stufrf",1748
11/07/2008 11:12:03 AM,hr,"dead computer",1211
11/07/2008 11:48:05 AM,re,"trade mag",2162
11/07/2008 11:51:47 AM,ip,"word e-mail stuff",222
11/07/2008 12:00:25 PM,tk,"who knows ... i can't think straight today for some reason",518
11/07/2008 12:12:43 PM,ps,"student ambassadors",738
11/07/2008 1:01:06 PM,bk,"lunch",2903
11/07/2008 1:46:10 PM,hr,"computer setup stuff",2704
11/07/2008 1:53:10 PM,re,"rss",420
11/07/2008 1:59:34 PM,ph,"",384
11/07/2008 2:15:56 PM,nw,"bibls tory",982
11/07/2008 2:15:59 PM,ip,"bibl story",3
11/07/2008 2:20:18 PM,nw,"bibl story",259
11/07/2008 2:22:29 PM,ip,"evals website",131
11/07/2008 5:05:09 PM,nw,"bibl story",9760
11/07/2008 5:11:32 PM,hc,"last littl cleanup",383

How to Read These Posts

These posts are posted by a perl script I wrote to parse the output of a text file created by a slightly modified version of quicklogger. Posts on Tuesday through Saturday cover one work day; posts on Monday summarize the previous work week.

The parser relies heavily on two-letter codes, visible in the raw data. These codes went into effect July 1, 2016:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
mt = meeting
mr = meeting-related (preparation/followup)
bm = budget management (shame on you)
re = reading/research
or = ordering
tr = training (includes telling someone how to do something, not just student supervision)
su = supervision
pr = project (just a task, but longer -- I know them when I see them)
av = specific AV-related task or project
hr/tk = short task/project done immediately (hr = something someone asked me to do; tk = something I decided to do just right then without planning for it)
ro/on = routine or ongoing task/project - stuff I do regularly for whatever reason
tm = task I initiated (but planned to do at a particular time, not something I just thought of this moment)
to,ob = task initiated at another's behest, but something I scheduled to work on at this particular time (not an emergency or spontaneous "let's just get this done" thing)
nw = meta-work (recording vacation, registering for a conference, rewriting the joblogger, chatting with the colleague whose quick question turned into a longer discussion about unrelated things [pastoral care work])
cl = community life stuff (chapel, forum, breaks)
co,em = correspondence, consultation, email

These tasks often flow into one another, so a spontaneous task (tk) includes not only the work I'm doing, but also the three interruptions in the hallway (that would normally be categorized as hr or co) that I dealt with while completing it.

Additionally, the categories are not strict. Tasks (tk or tm or to) have a tendency to become projects (pr), sometimes depending on nothing more than how I feel about them.

And, lest you think I spend all my time at work logging what I do at work instead of actually working, I'll break it down for you: if I average 50 log entries per day, and if each entry takes five seconds, that's six minutes and 10 seconds of each day committed to logging. Not nothing, but also not massive. And each entry probably takes less time than that -- I'm a touch typist, so most of the time entering in the log is related to waiting on the quicklogger to wake up when I press Ctrl-Alt-L. And even then I'm not sure more than five seconds pass.

Now the time coding and re-coding and remembering to use my new codes ... well, that's different. Let's call it nw.

So why the change? The new codes fit more neatly into categories in my job description so that when annual reporting and job description review comes up I can be a bit less impressionistic.

*** Older codes follow ***

These codes went into effect January 2, 2008, and are now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
di = distraction (self-imposed interruption)
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
hr/up = help request or unplanned task (something that comes up as a result of checking my e-mail or phone messages -- usually not the result of an interruption)
mt = meeting
ch = chat initiated by me (should be rare)
em = e-mail checking/corresponding
ph = phone (calling, checking messages)
vi = visit (initiated by me)
hc = housecleaning (office)
tk = planned task or project
re = reading and research
cl = community life (this includes various all campus events, special and regular breaks, forum, chapel, etc.)
nw = work-related non-work things (for those things that aren't exactly community life, but are also not exactly work -- conference registration comes to mind)

*** Original Codes Follow ***

Original code set (2007) - now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk = break
mt = meeting
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ie = interruption by e-mail (as in, "I was doing something else and an e-mail popped up on my screen because that's my preferred method of receiving help requests")
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
ch = chat initiated by me
em = e-mail correspondence initiated by me
ph = phone correspondence initiated by me
vi = visit initiated by me (presumably, if others were logging these last three things, there would be a corresponding "iv," "ip," or "ie")
ps = some personal task (as in, "Oooo ... I forgot to check the bank balance, maybe I should do that before I forget")
hc = housecleaning (as in, "I better check my e-mail, listen to my phone messages, and clean up this clutter on my desk, NOW!")
tk = planned task
re = reading and research

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