I can't get stuff done on Thursday
My teaching day is Wednesday. Since I commute 75-90 min one way, I try hard to not have to go in that often. That means that I (1) do a great deal of my work from home (emailing chapters back and forth, writing, running analyses, and a ton of email), and (2) I try to load up the days I do go in with all the things I can't do remotely. So, a typical on-campus day for me is like yesterday: 12-1 mt doc student, 1-1:30 counsel prospective doc applicant, 1:30-2:30 consult with colleague about why the analysis she did will make any statistician reviewer throw up and how to fix it (not treating race/ethnicity as an interval variable to start with), 2:30-3 more applicant counseling, 3-3:30 short meeting with doc student to get her unstuck on chapter 2, 3:30-5 proposal defense, 5-8:30 teach class.
The upshot being, I can't do anything much other than be very persnickity on email for an occasional question, run a load of laundry, and take the child to piano lessons. and that's it. It is like my brain finishes with a Wednesday and says "Nope, not thinking about anything. I don't care about your deadlines. I have no thoughts available." So, I need a different day to be a work day - maybe Sunday. But it is awkward. It would be much more productive if I could just work all the time. But apparently not.
The upshot being, I can't do anything much other than be very persnickity on email for an occasional question, run a load of laundry, and take the child to piano lessons. and that's it. It is like my brain finishes with a Wednesday and says "Nope, not thinking about anything. I don't care about your deadlines. I have no thoughts available." So, I need a different day to be a work day - maybe Sunday. But it is awkward. It would be much more productive if I could just work all the time. But apparently not.