My first month as an assistant professor

If I had to estimate, so far my time each week is partitioned as follows:

Some points of interest include

• an insanely large proportion of time devoted to preparing for lectures, far more than I actually spend giving the lectures
• an abysmally small proportion of time devoted to doing research
• a much larger proportion of time spent dealing with other people's fuck-ups than I would like

Let me relate a few of these fuck-ups for entertainment purposes (yours, not mine). For about two weeks I was unable to get into my office because no one had a key to the door. I had a TA waiting for a copy of the course textbook for three weeks, and it turned out it was sitting in the dept. office the whole time. I am still waiting for computers because the purchase orders never got submitted.

The time spent preparing to teach is largely because it's a new prep, so hopefully in the future that will be pared down some. Also, it's because I'm OCD about my lecture slides being beautiful. That I can't blame anyone else for. Except maybe my PhD supervisor, since he is OCD about his lecture slides and he trained me to be just like him. Yes, it is all his fault.

Now, how would I like to be spending my time? Assuming that I can't just lie on a beach all day reading a good book:

A lot more research, a lot less dealing with other people's fuck-ups. Now that would get me out of bed in the morning.