Professor Sharon

I think I’m finally on sabbatical!    I know  that probably  seems really obvious “to the most casual observer,” but it hasn’t been to me!   Oh I had the official letter, of course, for some time — but it didn’t seem quite real.  I realized today that it was because previously  when one cleans out the desk piles and prepares not to be at work for several months , at least for me, it is because I won’t be returning to that job…and, of course, I will be going back to my job!

Today I did spend the day doing the last of the paperwork due from last semester, making a stack of books to give away to some student teachers (and make more room to buy some while I’m away!) and generally cleaning up.  So now the last chores to be done are few and can happen at my leisure in the next couple of weeks — so sabbatical here I come!

Tomorrow — off to buy another guidebook or two!

By the way I’m writing this with an XO – the one laptop per child project. It’s tiny, adorable, and being in the field of early childhood, I think incredible well-designed the for the audience it is intended to be used by — I say this because it’s taken me forever to type this post. I’m a very fast touch typer and I’ve had to resort to single finger typing due to the keyboard’s small size! Check them out, pass the word, and participate in some way. This is a good thing.