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Every teacher hates variations of the question "What's the least we can do to pass?" I'm no exception. I inwardly (and sometimes outwardly) groan every time a student asks how they can get away with the least amount of work. Educationally, it goes against what I'm trying to teach them about becoming lifelong learners, and obviously I want them to excel in the content I'm presenting to them. [...]
This weekend I went over to some friends' house for dinner, and we ended up playing Settlers of Catan. At one point in the game, I blocked another player from connecting his roads, and he realized the only way to keep his wife from winning was to help me. It quickly became a crazy two team game which I ultimately won with the help of Chris. I also never would have made it up the stairs to his apartment without help. It took some teamwork for me to even get to the game, but I made it. It's the same in a lot of other situations, I need some help - it takes teamwork for me to get some places. It's pretty humbling.[...]
Oedipus knew the standard route of walking when he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, but I totally throw the pattern off. I went from two legs to four wheels and now I'm going around on anywhere from four to ten legs. Most recently, though, I've been playing around with just six legs in my apartment. [...]
My posts here have slowed down, but that's only because my life hasn't. I had some high and low and hilarious moments over the past two weeks. Just after my last post, I received an email from REHAB that my insurance had overlooked a $47,000 payment to them for my treatment during April of last year. I spent the next week emailing them and my insurance and reading over diagnosis reports from my five month hospital stay. Honestly, it was a little traumatic. I've come so far, and it's great to celebrate that, but I don't like being jerked back into details retellings of the painful and dependent position I was in a year ago. It certainly didn't help that this came up the day before my German tax meetings where I also had to go through months of medical bills and receipts and explain my payments and reimbursements to a tax consultant. It was pretty stressful. This week also marked the end of the post-season for the Blazers which was emotionally rough.[...]
