My first time up for a sabbatical at my present institution. I was a bit burnt out and wrote a sabbatical application in which I said that I needed to emerge from my "frame lock," a term I took from language poet Charles Bernstein. I needed, basically, to reframe my mind and get it out of conventional academic patterns of thought.
The department chair ranked my application below that of a colleague, with a more normal sabbatical application, you know, with a project she wanted to do. I agree with his ranking, in fact. I didn't get the sabbatical. Even if would be desirable to allow people to use a sabbatical to recuperate mental health, it is completely correct to give it to a more worthy project.
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