Well, it’s July.

One of the employee benefits at Logos (Faithlife) is that every 10 years you’re eligible to take a four-week, fully paid sabbatical. I’ll have 30 years in at Logos (how can that possibly be?!) in August, for a lot of reasons I requested to take my sabbatical early (in the summer) and my request was approved.

So I have pretty much the entire month of July off. I go back to work at Logos on Monday, July 31.

What ever will I do with this time?

One of my sabbatical goals is to average around 4 hours per day working on my priority writing task: The Shepherd of Hermas volumes for the Baylor Handbook on the Apostolic Fathers. I’m 15 chapters in, 99 chapters to go. I’d love to be able to get through the material in the Visions by the end of July. It’ll be a crunch, we’ll see what happens.

What will I do the rest of the time? Oh, so much to do.

First, I’m presenting a paper at the Bible Translation conference (in Dallas, TX Oct 13-17) on participant tracking in Bible passages; I hope to do some work generating data to illustrate how referential analyses of the Biblical text (specifically resolving pronouns and subject references) can assist Bible translators and consultants, particularly in passages with lots of referential back-and-forth. And I also hope to sketch the outline of the paper and get some slides together.

Second, I’ll be taking a vacation with my family. Hey, it’s a Sabbatical, I need some down time!

Third, whatever comes along. My daughter will be in a play that the area high schools, though a summer program, will be putting on (Legally Blonde) so I’ll be seeing that at least twice. My youngest is in swimming lessons and I’ll be able to go to those with him. And whatever else happens.

Also, the backyard is in the summer configuration. Yes, the pool is up! This means time in the pool with the boys (6yo, 10yo) is likely to happen with frequency.

Should be a summer of fun!