"Turning onto the campus proper, Dr. Gerhartt mentally organized his day into 20-minute blocks. Answering email was relegated to the minutes between 9:20 and 9:40, and then again between 1:40 and 2:00, with no leeway for distraction at any other time. His secretary's memos required an entire block of their own (9:00-9:20), but at least after that, they would be done with. Aside from a 40-minute break for lunch, and a 1-hour departmental meeting in the afternoon, he could preserve the entire remaining workday for his precious experimental work." According to the passage, Dr. Gerhartt views the task of handling his secretary's memos as…
More important than his experimental work
Unpleasant but necessary
Impossibly difficult
Entirely unpredictable
Exciting and stimulating