Reflections on the Day
Reflections on the Day
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当天的反思
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6419.1994.tb00105.x
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
P. Phillips
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作者：
P. Phillips
1. 在办公室 每天都有自己的菜单，这是一个主要由地点决定的活动三明治：上班前、上班期间和上班后。三明治的中心是大学办公室，在我的例子中是考尔斯基金会，这是一栋精美的三层建筑，位于纽黑文镇的一条街道上，查尔斯·狄更斯曾称其为美国最好的街道。有长日和短日之分。漫长的一天从早上 6:30 的早高峰之前开始，一直持续到晚上 7:30，这段行程有助于确保我顺利通勤到 20 英里外麦迪逊乡村小镇的家和家人。我是新西兰人，我的家一定离海洋不太远（尽管在这种情况下是灰色的北大西洋）。有时，白天的时间较短是由我孩子的校车时刻表决定的，从上午 9:00 持续到下午 3:00。并不是所有的日子都让我去纽黑文，那些日子提供了在家中进行研究、阅读和写作的平静岛屿，不时通过电话、电子邮件和现在偶尔受控的传真机打断。日常活动由主要活动决定——委员会会议、教学班、研讨会和与学生的交流——剩下的时间则花在信件处理上，通常是堆积如山的邮件、一些电子邮件和定期侵入的传真文件，这些文件带有最后期限的签名，在现代技术允许的最晚时刻从一个办公室转移到另一个办公室。所有这些都会共同提高学术生活的新陈代谢率，有时甚至达到不健康的水平。在艰难的一天，我和我的秘书会发出四十多封信、大约十封电子邮件和几份传真。在安静的一天，我们管理其中的两到三个，并更新我们的 Paradox 数据库和文件。大部分邮件和办公室活动来自某种编辑工作、耶鲁大学外部的学术评估、审稿请求、有关研究、访问、会议等的询问。有时我们会完全陷入办公室工作中。但每封新邮件都会带来新的负担，我们以哲学的方式对待它们——今天没有完成的事情要等到明天。我制定的入住规则帮助我们……
1. At the office Each day has its own menu, a sandwich of activities that are governed largely by location: before, during, and after the office. At the center of the sandwich is the university office, in my case the Cowles Foundation, a fine three-story building on a street in the town of New Haven that Charles Dickens once called the nicest street in America. There are long days and short days. A long day starts before the a.m. rush hour at 6:30 a.m. and lasts till 7:30 p.m., travel times that help to ensure a smooth commute to my home and family some 20 miles away in the rural town of Madison. New Zealander that I am, my home must not be too far from the ocean (albeit in this case the grey North Atlantic). Short days are sometimes dictated by the timetable of my children's school bus and they last from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Not all days take me into New Haven and those days offer peaceful islands of research, reading and writing at home, punctuated by the telephone, e-mail and nowadays the occasional controlled eruption of a fax machine. Daily activity is governed by main events — committee meetings, teaching class, seminars and periods with my students — and the remaining time is spent in correspondence dealing with what is often a mountain of mail, some e-mail and regular incursions of faxed documents which bear the signature of a deadline that is being transferred from one office to another at the latest moment that modern technology allows. All of which conspire to increase the metabolic rate of academic life, sometimes to unhealthy levels. On a tough day my secretary and I will put out forty odd letters, about ten e-mails and a few faxes. On a quiet day we manage two or three of each and bring our Paradox data base and files up to date. Much of the volume of mail and office activity comes from editorial work of one kind or another, scholarly evaluations from outside the walls of Yale, refereeing requests, enquiries about research, visits, conferences and so on. Some days we get caught up with our office work completely. But each new mail brings fresh burdens and we treat them philosophically — what does not get done one day waits till tomorrow. And house rules that I have instituted help us …