I like to recycle. It's a good time. But I am really trying to Reduce and Reuse, and leave the Recycling as a last resort. In the spirit of this, Friday's Shenanigan was that I made better decisions involving computer print-outs, so that I would create less waste. Let me explain:
So, I had to facilitate a lesson in one of my classes and part of the grade is giving a copy of your lesson plan to every member of the class. That's 23 copies of a two-page lesson plan that I have to print out. Yeesh. So my 1st Reduce move was to condense it onto one page. Then I actually utilized Print Preview for once to double check my layout so that I wouldn't have to print them again. Good for me. Of course, I should have also used this to double check the text. Stupid.
Here's where I become Psychotic:
After the 23rd lesson plan was warm in my hands, I realized--GASP--that it was still labeled a Rough Draft! Normally, I wouldn't allow such a thing and anyone who says differently can go straight to Hell. I would rather scratch off my own skin than allow a text mistake that I had made exist in the world. My neck was sweating, my hands were shaking, my mouth was foaming. After some deep breathing, I realized that I wouldn't lose points for the flub and chose the good of the Planet over my OCD and didn't print out a whole new batch of papers for one tiny mistake. I scratched it out in pen. In an almost perfect square shape, I might add.
It's fun to grow.
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