Side Effects

I've discovered there are some side effects to being on sabbatical. First and foremost I've reverted back to my natural body time--staying up and getting up a later than during the school year. Second, I've discovered that my interpersonality doesn't necessarily jive with a full year sabbatical when I'm home alone and 30 miles away from the place I work and basically live. So I had to manage a new set of dependencies that I wasn't necesarrily prepared for especially at the beginning of the year. It is in reaction to those emotions that led me to the third side effect. I'm addicted to my computer.

I've been very good about getting in and doing work on my computer almost every day. It's not like I'm playing games, but I spend probabl spend at least 6-8 hours online. Part of it is checking emails, part of it is blogging, and OK and part of it is checking in on my facebook account. I noticed that I kept blogging but didn't get into finishing all the D2L pieces, so over the last couple of days I've spent some time incorporating all my blog ideas into actual discussion forums, assignments, and quizzes. As of right now I have a total of 68 blog entries and many of them have corresponding assessments. I think that's pretty cool considering all of that is a "side effect" to my initial idea about blogging. In fact, none of this is in my sabbatical plan. So sometimes side effects can lead to positive outcomes!