Beemer

There's a very important rule that professionals should include into their operating procedures at all organizational meetings. It's called the "no BMWs" rule. Now, mind you, I'm a teacher by profession, so this rule becomes even more important when I get in a group with my esteemed colleagues.

No bitching, moaning, or whining.

The amount of time lost to these three utterly useless activities is stunning. Without them, the average 30 minute meeting might actually run only 30 minutes long.

ACL Recovery Blog

There actually is a blog dedicated to being "The story of one man’s ACL Surgery and Recovery."

God, and I thought I was a loser.

Yesterday

I learned that I can finally climb up the flight of stairs to my second floor classroom. It takes me about four minutes to cover the 22 steps. So maybe I should call it the flight of stares. Except for the "flight" part. I'm not doing a lot of flying these days... at least not in a downwardly direction.

I also learned how annoying it is to answer the question "What happened to you?" over and over.

Two Days Ago

I learned what an ACL ligament is. Basically, it's the ligament that holds your patella onto the front of your leg. If you rip it completely, like, say, in a fall off a desk at school, there're really nothing there but skin and blue jeans to keep your knee cap from popping off and rolling down the hallway, only to be used by a coterie of pestiferous 9th graders as a hockey puck, with Mr Millweed's door as the goal.

Most of this stuff about the rolling knee cap is just conjecture on my part. The thing about the ACL is all too painfully real.

Three Days Ago

I learned what a marvelous modern miracle this whole "Workman's Comp" arrangement is. From the moment I splatted flat on the hard linoleum floor of my classroom to the second I limped pathetically into the ER at St. Joseph's Hospital, all the financial worries that go with destroying one's leg on the job are magically whisked away by the Workman's Comp fairy. If you're going to suffer a painful, life-altering injury, I highly recommend doing so at work!

Four Days Ago

I learned that standing up on a desk at school to fix a ceiling-mounted Smart Board projector can lead to a terribly painful fall.