{"id":32921,"date":"2016-01-16T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=32921"},"modified":"2016-01-16T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T11:15:02","slug":"sabbatitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/01\/sabbatitude.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabbatitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Most of you will be aware that I was on sabbatical last semester. My department administrator used the term \u201csabbatitude\u201d at some point early in the semester, and I liked the term, and so I thought I would use it in the title of this post, since every blogger who gets a sabbatical inevitably must post a retrospective. I hope I had the right sabbatitude going into it, and have come out of the experience of my second sabbatical with a good sabbatitude too.<\/p>\n

During my sabbatical, I had two main book projects as well as some smaller projects I needed to work on. I got the latter done (apart from the ones I foolishly took on during<\/em> my sabbatical) in the summer, and then in the Fall semester I spent my time working first on completing the Mandaean Book of John commentary and finding a publisher for what will be two print volumes (with critical edition, English translation, and commentary), and then on a short volume on theology and science fiction (which is almost complete).<\/p>\n

I also needed to spend some time promoting the trip to Israel and the West Bank that I am running next summer, and apparently I was successful, as there are now 18 going \u2013 the largest group I've ever taken.<\/p>\n

As mentioned previously, I aimed to lose weight<\/a> and exercise more regularly.<\/p>\n

I worked on music a bit more, in particular singing. I intended to finish learning Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante D\u00e9funte on the piano<\/a>, but only ended up devoting relatively little time to that, and so that is the one thing that I can really say was a sabbatical intention that was a flop.<\/p>\n

For those who wonder how I balanced sabbatical projects with blogging, the answer is that I regularly posted short memes or other things rather than long substantive posts, and I often scheduled posts a week or two in advance, and then left the blog to largely run on autopilot while I focused on writing.<\/p>\n

Did the blog feel different these past several months?<\/p>\n

To end with, here is a New Yorker<\/em> cartoon from back in 2012<\/a>, which bore the caption, \u201c'How I Spent My Sabbatical,' by Professor Harvey Brinkman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

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