I am sure that no one will feel sorry for me when I say this, but I much prefer being on sabbatical to working. Not only was I at school for eleven hours today, but I also got relatively little on my to-do list done in that time. When you are working, there are people who are the boss of you and tell you to go to meetings and fill out forms and then go to more meetings to create forms and everyone has to agree or not agree and then some are mad while others don't care and really you just want to go back to your classroom to finish putting the posters on the walls because how can anyone learn in such a bare place but you can't do that because even when you go there someone is knocking on your door which is actually good because you can't get any information from your email or your phone because something is seriously not right with them but if you ask to have them fixed people will tell you about more meetings and forms and disagreements.
On sabbatical, things m o v e m o r e s l o w l y.
Even sentences are shorter.
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That is the "Truest Sentence" I've ever read. Even Hemingway, king of short sentences, whould be proud.
I have a sty in my eye, and I resent that fact.
Ah, yes. I'm going into school today to set up my classroom. Time to dive back in to the thick of things. I feel ya, Isque.
Love your post. So poetic.
I could feel your pain as I read through that post - or maybe it was just a painfully long sentence. Welcome back to the real-not-everyone-has-a-sabbatical-option world. It's tough out there ....
i really think you and kc and i should work on a re-entry from sabbatical piece. everyone would love it. of course, we're kind of doing that thru blogging, but i had visions of something people could hold in their hands.
Meetings: planning to plan. Life of a state worker. Sigh.
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