Injured Boss
December 30th, 2005 by MarkI always knew it would happen eventually. My boss, who has the fastest motorcycle in Taiwan, broke a leg in an accident. Was it from enjoying his bike’s awesome power to go from 0 to 200kph in four seconds? No. It was from some idiot lady deciding to cut in front of him and do a U-turn against traffic. He was only going 18kph when they hit (the speedometer got stuck from the crash), and he got up right afterwards. It turns out his protective boot was all that was holding his ankle together. He walked around, made sure the other driver was okay, borrowed someone’s cell phone, and picked up his bike, all without any idea that he was walking around on a broken leg. As soon as he took off the boot, he got dizzy and had to go to the hospital. Now he’s got a pin in his ankle and he’ll be on crutches for a month. Stuff like this really makes me feel uneasy about riding around on my scooter.
As a result of all of this, I’ve been ridiculously busy. I’m teaching all of his classes that don’t conflict with mine, and grading about 90 test books and homework books a day. I guess I’m not going to make much progress on the curriculum for a while.
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December 31st, 2005 at 2:50 am
How does one go through 90 test books without going crazy?
It seems you are an avid investor and knows where to put your savings to work. I never had any decent knowledge of investing (save for company’s 401k and mutual fund) so most of my saving sits stupidly in a bank account.
December 31st, 2005 at 3:26 am
Hahaha… well, “one” gets pretty efficient at grading them and assigning 罰寫. Each test only has ten questions, and the homeworks have at most twelve. Actually, for the English-English tests and homework (answering questions), and the Chinese-English translation tests, I can go through about 30 books in 10 minutes. It’s the English-Chinese translation tests which are a pain to grade. Obviously, I know way more Chinese than my students know English, but it still takes me longer to read it and some of them have pretty bad handwriting in Chinese.
As for investing, picking stocks takes research. On the good side though, you really don’t need to know much if you invest in index funds. 90% of managed funds lose to the market each year and 99% lose over a 10 year span. Index funds will just match the stock market (which has beaten bonds for every single decade since it opened, including during the depression). Just get an index fund that tracks the SP500, or the Wilshire 5000 and make sure it doesn’t have too many fees. You should be able to get an index fund that takes out less than 0.5% a year in fees. Maybe I’ll blog about index funds sometime…