What do you do in the non practical part of your job?

Question: What do you do in the non practical part of your job?
- Keywords:
  practical,
  research,
  scientist,
  theoretical,
  theory
Asked by willgidman1 to John on 13 Mar 2012.
- John Prytherch answered on 13 Mar 2012:
  
  By non-practical I really meant all the computer based bits, which are mostly writing science papers, doing analysis (by which I mostly mean writing computer code to look at the things we have measured) and answering emails.

Question: What do you do in the non practical part of your job?