In some ways, I have been thinking about the Cambridge trip and my sabbatical as one in the same thing. I know that the trip is only part of the work I will do on sabbatical, but since it is the first thing, and such a big thing, in my mind they merged together.
But my sabbatical started on Tuesday, and I am not leaving until next Wednesday, and my mind is stuck in a kind of limbo, and at the same time very busy. I have a to-do list that is three pages long, and full of things that are almost all logistical, not intellectual or even, mostly, interesting, just necessary in order for life to move on, especially the children's lives, while Alex and I are not here.
All of which is to say that the reflective part of sabbatical is going to have to wait for the paperwork, shopping, organizing, cleaning, sorting, calendering, packing, and parenting parts of my list to get a little shorter.
I'll start a new list once I get to Cambridge. It will have very different things on it.
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