{"id":4191,"date":"2011-11-29T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2011-11-29T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:49:24","slug":"notice-email-sabbatical-will-start-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2011\/11\/29\/notice-email-sabbatical-will-start-december-15.html","title":{"rendered":"NOTICE: Email sabbatical will start December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/EmailSabbatical.html\">It&#8217;s that time of the year again.<\/a>  If you don\u2019t know me, you probably don\u2019t know that I work obscene hours for most of the year and then take a proper vacation during the winter months. As in no internet, no work, no geeking out on research. For me to continue doing the work that I do, I have to refresh. In order to refresh, I go offline. No email, no Twitter, no blogging. And only pre-downloaded Wikipedia-ing (because how can you tour foreign countries without wanting to know weird information about the universe?).<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have learned that vacation isn\u2019t vacation if you come home to thousands of pending emails. Cuz then you spend most of vacation worrying about the work that\u2019s piling up. So, over seven years ago, I started instituting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/EmailSabbatical.html\">\u201cemail sabbaticals\u201d<\/a> in my life. While I\u2019m away, my lovely procmail file (aka \u201cfiltering software\u201d) will direct all of my email to \/dev\/null (aka \u201cthe permanent trash\u201d). I will not be reachable. The only person that I stay in contact with while I\u2019m gone is my mother because it\u2019s just too cruel to my mom to disappear entirely. Twitter and my blog will also loudly proclaim my MIA-ness. But the bigger issue is that I will return to a zero-inbox. Nothing sent to me during my email sabbatical will survive. All senders will receive a lovely bounce message saying that their message will never get through. In this way, no one can put things in my to-do queue while I\u2019m trying to take a break. I need to recharge and there\u2019s no way to recharge when the pile-up grows ever unmanageable.<\/p>\n<p>From December 15-January 10, you will not be able to reach me. So, if you need something from me, holler now. Or wait until I come back. But please recognize that I need a break.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about my crazy process, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/EmailSabbatical.html\">How to Take an Email Sabbatical<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again. If you don\u2019t know me, you probably don\u2019t know that I work obscene hours for most of the year and then take a proper vacation during the winter months. As in no internet, no work, no geeking out on research. For me to continue doing the work that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1071],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sabbatical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}