Appearance is deceiving

I am sure some of you knew and experienced this already but I am going to moan and bitch anyway. Just had a day full of meetings and tomorrow is another similarly set out day. To my manager I am sure that will look like I am working my ass off to move the project forward. In some sense I am but really I have achieved absolutely nothing today, and expecting the same for tomorrow.

Is this the price for moving up the career ladder? I certainly hope not.