'Asides' Category
In the rough
How do you know when you have recovered from traumatic brain injury? When you go back to work at your old job? When you learn a new task and perform it better
than most?
Is there a way to measure learning to walk again?
I think the clearest way to self-knowledge in recovery is setting a goal and […]Another Maslow Quote
“The brain-injured person has an exaggerated need for certainty, safety, definiteness, and order.” Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality from memory, at this point.
Thrown
This word, “thrown,” seems to me right now to express something I want to use in/as the title.
Most of all, thrown as in “radical thrownness,” from existential philosophy. The idea that we exist in a state of radical thrownness, not having chosen our specific time or circumstances of existence, and that we make our own […]Brief Aside on Collection Tactics
And the logical fallacies! Get a lawyer, they said. We don’t want to talk to you, that implied. What would you know? Pay a lawyer $1,000 (to start) in order reduce the bill to some amount I could not pay and didn’t owe?
So at one point I offered $1,000. They told me That’s not enough! […]On the previous Aside
The point is, the feeling I had, after the fact, and after the oral exam. How DARE they, after all they’ve put me through, demand that I go through this hour of examination of how much I’ve kept up with my field, when they did everything they could, through the lawsuit, to take away my […]
Aside
Yesterday, October 24, 2006 I had an oral examination to satisfy a new requirement for Ph.D. candidates, to recertify that they were still on top of their game in their field. In that sense, for that purpose, it went okay. On the other hand, I wasn’t very satisfied with where I came out in my […]