Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 13 October, 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 13 October, 2010

4 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			36h 21m 2s
Time Working:			29h 4m 39s
	Planned:			18h 38m 29s
		Projects/Tasks:			10h 20m 41s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			3h 11m 34s
		Communication:			2h 54m 10s
		House cleaning:			2h 12m 4s
	Unplanned:			9h 46m 28s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			6h 40m 36s
		Projects/Tasks:			3h 5m 52s
	Other Work:			0h 39m 42s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			0h 39m 42s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			7h 16m 23s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 5m 15s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 16m 9s


Time Working:			79.99%
	Planned:			64.11%
		Projects/Tasks:			55.49%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			17.13%
		Communication:			15.57%
		House cleaning:			11.81%
	Unplanned:			33.62%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			68.31%
		Projects/Tasks:			31.69%
	Other Work:			2.28%
		Non-work Work:			0.00%
		Community Life:			100.00%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			20.01%

*** Raw Data ***

10/12/2010 8:00:05 AM,ar,"",0
10/12/2010 8:53:45 AM,re,"",3220
10/12/2010 9:19:02 AM,iv,"",1517
10/12/2010 10:08:56 AM,re,"",2994
10/12/2010 10:09:24 AM,iv,"",28
10/12/2010 10:18:44 AM,re,"",560
10/12/2010 10:45:00 AM,ps,"",1576
10/12/2010 11:13:08 AM,vi,"",1688
10/12/2010 11:43:41 AM,hc,"",1833
10/12/2010 12:23:23 PM,cl,"chapel",2382
10/12/2010 1:00:41 PM,bk,"lunch",2238
10/12/2010 1:35:41 PM,vi,"",2100
10/12/2010 1:57:47 PM,tk,"",1326
10/12/2010 2:21:41 PM,iv,"",1434
10/12/2010 2:25:09 PM,ps,"",208
10/12/2010 2:36:26 PM,hc,"",677
10/12/2010 2:46:52 PM,tk,"inaug",626
10/12/2010 4:03:33 PM,tk,"",4601
10/12/2010 5:07:35 PM,tk,"",3842

10/13/2010 8:15:55 AM,ar,"",0
10/13/2010 8:41:20 AM,em,"",1525
10/13/2010 9:13:38 AM,re,"",1938
10/13/2010 9:30:15 AM,ip,"",997
10/13/2010 10:20:00 AM,ps,"CARES",2985
10/13/2010 10:25:06 AM,iv,"",306
10/13/2010 10:28:28 AM,re,"",202
10/13/2010 11:16:21 AM,ip,"",2873
10/13/2010 11:26:17 AM,hc,"",596
10/13/2010 11:43:50 AM,ps,"tmq",1053
10/13/2010 11:44:44 AM,hr,"",54
10/13/2010 11:51:03 AM,hr,"",379
10/13/2010 12:10:55 PM,iv,"",1192
10/13/2010 12:46:58 PM,bk,"lunch",2163
10/13/2010 1:06:00 PM,tk,"eval admin interface",1142
10/13/2010 1:12:54 PM,iv,"",414
10/13/2010 2:50:29 PM,tk,"evals",5855
10/13/2010 2:51:06 PM,iv,"",37
10/13/2010 3:02:05 PM,tk,"evals",659
10/13/2010 3:08:01 PM,ip,"",356
10/13/2010 3:18:43 PM,vi,"",642
10/13/2010 3:22:55 PM,tk,"evals",252
10/13/2010 5:17:50 PM,tk,"evals",6895

10/14/2010 7:57:59 AM,ar,"",0
10/14/2010 8:19:08 AM,em,"",1269
10/14/2010 11:47:32 AM,ps,"class",12504
10/14/2010 11:49:20 AM,em,"",108
10/14/2010 12:28:37 PM,iv,"lost pwd",2357
10/14/2010 12:50:00 PM,re,"",1283
10/14/2010 1:10:00 PM,bk,"lunch",1200
10/14/2010 1:23:10 PM,vi,"",790
10/14/2010 1:28:19 PM,vi,"",309
10/14/2010 3:06:23 PM,hr,"",5884
10/14/2010 4:03:07 PM,iv,"",3404
10/14/2010 5:01:14 PM,tk,"evals",3487

10/15/2010 7:58:00 AM,ar,"",0
10/15/2010 8:02:46 AM,hc,"",286
10/15/2010 8:26:22 AM,up,"",1416
10/15/2010 8:28:44 AM,em,"",142
10/15/2010 9:41:27 AM,tk,"sgizmo",4363
10/15/2010 9:46:17 AM,bk,"d",290
10/15/2010 9:56:25 AM,ps,"espn",608
10/15/2010 10:19:03 AM,bk,"",1358
10/15/2010 10:57:16 AM,hr,"",2293
10/15/2010 11:38:19 AM,tk,"sgizmo",2463
10/15/2010 11:58:35 AM,tk,"gizmo",1216
10/15/2010 12:04:29 PM,iv,"",354
10/15/2010 2:28:42 PM,iv,"printing",8653
10/15/2010 2:31:22 PM,hr,"",160
10/15/2010 2:33:16 PM,iv,"",114
10/15/2010 2:41:50 PM,tk,"sgizmo",514
10/15/2010 2:57:56 PM,hr,"",966
10/15/2010 4:13:28 PM,hc,"",4532
10/15/2010 4:44:45 PM,em,"",1877
10/15/2010 5:06:22 PM,re,"rss",1297

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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