Where are my hours lost?!?

Past week has been intense! Even though my calendar didn't look as bad as it could be, somehow I felt really unproductive. So did some calculations... For administrative stuff, and for this I count sitting in the board meeting, like Faculty Council of Health Sciences, Steering Committee of School of Pharmacy, fixing IT issues, in total 4 h. Then for teaching, including Bachelor of Science seminars, meetings with the students, planning how to develop the next semester's teaching, developmental discussion of Doctoral Programme in Drug Reasearch, in total 7 h. Continued with supervising and research activities related meetings, 5 h. So 40% of the official working time, I have been sitting in different places. And I guess this is actually pretty nice number, leaving 60% of my working time to do everything else, but then again if you count all the unofficial discussion and supervising and paying bills, answering emails to students, reading writings, etc. etc. no wonder that I wasn't able to accomplish the task that I was hoping to do, finalize the review that I was asked to write. Luckily I still have time to write it, but do I ever get used to all the ad-hoc tasks that I'm supposed to do every day?!? I hope your week was more productive! 😀 And I hope some day my all these ad-hoc activities will pay somehow back! 😎