Thinking about Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns. What are they? I was contriving a paradox: the epistemologist who didn't know he was one.
I'm still weirdly obsessed with the McChrystal drama. By accepting his resignation, has Obama created a MacArther-type monster, that will be a martyr and icon for the tea partiers? Isn't that dangerous? Or… has a back-room deal been cut, that will grant McChrystal some new role after an appropriate cooling-off period? I understand the chain-of-command / civilian-control argument that said "McChrystal must go," but I think this was a very risky move for Obama politically. Was there a better solution, though?
Yesterday, the staff volleyball game wasn't played – most of the teachers were all working hard preparing for some sort of inspection / observation / review that seems to be coming up. I'm not clear on the details of this. On the one hand, staff volleyball stresses me out, because I'm really very bad at volleyball, and it's mildly humiliating. On the other hand, I look forward to it because I actually understand that it is valuable in building a sense of colleague-ship and community with the Korean teachers, which is what it's "for," obviously.
As a foreign teacher, it's so easy to feel isolated and cut-off from everyone, and one thing I find myself shocked to be missing about LBridge is the "staff room" – I used to dread the staff room! But it did give me a chance to sort of gauge the "mood" of everyone, over time, whereas here, because I have my own classroom to lurk in, I'm quite isolated.