Month: February 2005

choosing a new URL

I’m switching my URL. I’m going to have to change URLs in any case and it seems obvious that I should choose one I like and will be keeping. My two options are jilltxt.net or txt.uib.no – and I don’t know which […]

head of department, day 4

Teaching: 39%, admin 58%, research 3%, total work time 10 hrs 20 mins (v.g., can leave early tomorrow), number of times checked blog to see if new comments 39 (pathetic), posts or comments written before this 0, boyfriends 1 (v.g.), number of […]

head of department, day 3

Maybe this admin thing won’t be so bad after all. Today’s time use was 60% teaching, 15% administration and 25% research, for a total of 7:54 hours. This blog post is being written in my spare time. Unfortunately the research was all […]

head of department, day 2

I started keeping a time sheet. Results for today: Preparing teaching: 1:22 hrs (web design course, grad students’ writing group) Administration: 6:24 hrs (meetings, email, drafting memo, phone calls) Research: 10 minutes (writing this blog post) Total: 7:56 hrs, which is 26 […]