I am stuck in the Denver airport and the goddamn wifi isn't working. I'm more pissed about that than the plane.

Okay that Aguigui guy is getting creepier and creepier. I have chills, man. He's a psychopath.

Jesus. Two emergency things to throw in front of the approval board. As I'm typing in the one that simply missed the deadline for being executed this weekend, an "All stations panic!" incident happens, and I have to reach out for emergency emergency approval. Which requires CIO approval, and she's at the airport, about to board a plane, and no one can tell me what happens when you have an entire team not able to work, hanging on her approval, and she's incommunicado.

I mean, her assistant doesn't know what happens in this scenario. I don't want to be involved.

Hahaha, I just found out about an additional requirement for the thing I was supposed to be submitting now. Or by noon tomorrow. Or, OK, on Tuesday, but I REALLY don't want this shit hanging over my weekend when it was supposed to be done already. And it's only half my fault that I didn't know about it. Pray someone gets back to me in the next two hours.

Has anybody with an interruption filled day done time tracking? I am trying to do this so we can figure out if we need another person in an evidence based way, but I have been tracking by 15 minute increments, and I actually do a TON of things that are 5 minutes or less. Because I am answering questions in person, on the phone and via email, I am unable to control when I do these things, as it is part of my job to respond.

Sophia, could you track time by 15 minute intervals, but simultaneously note interrupting questions per hour, with some vague breakdown of topics if necessary?

So your track might go: 1pm filing, 1:30 working on database. 1-2pm fielded 4 phone calls about accreditation, student directions.

And maybe for answering emails, do a batch once an hour and ignore them in between email-answering time? Unless they are more time sensitive.

That is a good idea. I just can't track my time to the minute! It seems ridiculous.

Also, I am realizing that I have tasks that take less than a minute that I am not necessarily able to group together because a lot of what I do is ask other people to do things for other people and then follow up. So it takes me a minute to do the task "create course shell" because I don't do anything but email IT. And then I have to follow up if there is no response.

Are you just looking to impress someone? You could just do a running list of tasks, maybe?