You may assume that with all this time on my hands I will have some interesting philosophical thoughts to share. Sorry, not happening unless you really want to hear my meanderings about the nature of sovereignty in customary public international law which I have spent 15 hours reading and writing about over the last two days.
There has however been an interesting parallel study taking place. I have long known that I spend a considerable time each day replying to e-mails but as I multi-task, have countless meetings short and long and have had a backlog of e-mails ever since 2000 (peaking at over 1,000 following vacations) I have never known how long was spent replying to e-mails. On Monday night, as a result of Christmas vacation and these snow-days I went to bed with ZERO e-mails in my Inbox. It felt good. Yesterday by 11am I had read / replied to 130 e-mails and this morning by the same time I had replied to 117 (and I would say that these are light days). Given the lack of interruptions and my reading / writing for defined blocks of time I have been able to estimate that this week I am spending 4 hours+ plus per day typing responses to same-day e-mails and my estimate is therefore that a typical school-day is probably in the region of 6+ hours. Now; I know the challenge but what is the remedy?
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