s*UH*bbatical. Emphasis on the "uh?"

  JANUARY: ​​ s-UH?-bbatical. Emphasis on the “uh.” A weary academic documents her quest. One month down. Really? Today’s blog is partly about the sabbatical process and partly about my research!   THE MECHANICS OF SUHBBATICAL: So far, it is not what I envisioned regarding writing, timing, and wellness. I had this idea that I would wake up and write for 3 hours every weekday. This is really quite funny because I am not new to research. But, for some reason, for sabbatical I didn’t envision all the other parts of research. Reading. Emailing. Searching. Attending lectures. More reading. All the reading. Note taking. Printing. But I just had this image of waking up and writing. Don’t get me wrong. I have written, but I have invested far less time writing than doing the other aspects of research.   Also, timing is interesting. The waking up for 3 uninterrupted hours of research is not turning out to be realistic thus far. It works several mornings a week, but for others I have other life