sabbatical the sabbaticist sabbie when i grow up i shall often take sabbaticals like others take tonic they will be good for my health and make my skin glow make my hair shine and my teeth glint they will cure my heart and straighten my limbs. i shall have them perscribed by doctors and forever be just setting off again or returning, only to set off once more. i shall become addicted to them craving them like the sweetest drug but i will never grow haggard or lank or thin to the point of skeletal, as i will forever be looking after my health by taking sabbaticals. i will have an old, battered leather suitcase filled to the brim with clothing and trinkets. i will not need for anything more. i will be constantly catching up with friends who are on sabbaticals of their own, and my passport will read like an atlas and i shall change my name, and my profession shall read 'sabbaticist' and there will be a picture of me in glowing health smiling for the all the world like im on my next sabbatical already. 010225 what's it to you? who go blather from