(yes, even more so than economics)
I have been attempting (in a completely non-rigorous fashion) to keep better tabs on how I spend (aka waste) my time. Yesterday morning for example when I should have been organizing slide shows and lecture notes, I spent almost an hour with my usual rounds of email and websites.
This evening I have spent 2.5 hours on a various of accounting tasks for school: writing my students who are entitled to extra time on next week's quiz to ask what sort of arrangements would work for them; ordering a 60-day review copy of a book called Making Learning Come Alive by David Smokler; and trying to impose some order on 4 sets of course files (two laptops and two jump drives, one of which has been lost (but now found!) for the last week). Productive, actually. I am learning new things all the time about how to organize FROM THE BEGINNING to save time down the road. Good systems streamline the annoying daily junk and allow me to focus on what I really like to do in all this, which is invent new ways to make all this geography stuff interesting to the jaded 13th grader.
Posted by otto0114 at October 11, 2007 10:30 PM