It is Tuesday morning, June 21, 2022. I return to the classroom today – virtual classroom – to teach an architecture class. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve taught this class, so I spend some time the last few days doing some review. I’m pretty comfortable with the content, and it’s a smaller class, so I’m confident that we’ll have a positive experience.
Of course, the moment I type that, I’ve probably aroused the ire of the Gods of Fate, and I’ll get “that one guy” in class.
Every technical trainer has had an experience with “that one guy”. Sometimes that one guy is always that one guy, and other times it can be more reminiscent of the Star Trek (Original Series) episode, “Wolf in the Fold”, where a dark entity jumps from one unsuspecting human to the other, then commits heinous crimes.
It doesn’t happen to me that much these days. I guess I’ve reached a point in my career that I don’t come across that one guy as often. My interactions with learners are almost always positive, primarily due to the training situation. Generally, I get the best students these days, and not the folks that are under a lot of pressure to pass an exam, or work their way into a position to jump from one employer to the other.
Yesterday, we celebrated Dane’s birthday, and it became a bit of a book fair. I think there were 9 or 10 books in the pile by the time we started birthday dessert – not cake this year, but a strawberry-rhubarb crumble.
That’s enough to get me started on the day.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
