There are few insults I wouldn't put up with for a few guilt-free days of granny-and-child bonding while I absent myself.
Or I absent myself entirely, to leave television, radio, and yes, even Twitter, returning gingerly to communication systems only when it is unquestionably safe to do so.
I just absented myself from the theatre.
Which is why I have absented myself from social media.
"Even though in theory I was the director, I was absenting myself more and more, letting myself get carried along by events," he says.
After the usual morning drill — rifle practice, first with a spade, then with a 98 carbine — I was released to make sketches from nature: all afternoon I could absent myself from the camp with my watercolors, water bottle, and drawing pad.
They love to go for treks on the rocky hillsides, from many of which I manage to absent myself.
I can't imagine absenting myself from the story.
"I would have to absent myself from my Washington responsibilities, which were really big and would have been really noticeable if I had not done them," Mr. Weiner said.
"In theory, an accused can say, 'I am willing to absent myself,' but that would be unwise," said Geoff Budlender, one of the nation's leading lawyers.
At one point, I was able to absent myself from the stage and to sit in the audience to watch the PowerPoint part of her event, where she discussed the research behind her books Spider and Dead Boy Talking.
