[The Montana Professor 18.1, Fall 2007 <http://mtprof.msun.edu>]

Twenty-Five Things to do on Sabbatical

Edwin Battistella
English
Southern Oregon University
battiste@sou.edu

1. Enter the New Yorker cartoon caption contest every week
2. Create Wikipedia entries for all your colleagues
3. Write in coffee shops
4. Join a gym
5. Get a physical
6. Make a will
7. Take old clothes to the Goodwill
8. Put your valuables on eBay
9. Arrange your books by color and pick a color to read
10. Synchronize your clocks so there is just one time zone in the house
11. Change the batteries in the smoke alarms
12. Learn the really cool features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
13. Test ride a Segway
14. Archive your email
15. Set some Google alerts
16. Switch to on-line bill paying
17. Get your taxes done early
18. Sign up for the national do-not-call list
19. Read more of the daily comics than just Doonesbury
20. Start reading the New York Times travel section; plan a vacation
21. Decide what kind of consulting you'd be best at
22. Write a personal strategic plan
23. Register your name as an Internet domain
24. Plan your next sabbatical
25. Ponder the imponderable

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