To Punzki: Yes, Grace is "team manager" again this time.  She's handling food, room assignments, transportation, and all the other support details.  We've asked the students to help, though, because taking care of 25 people is no joke! 

To Aids:  Sausages are Doc V's favorite as well.

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In a world so starved for good work and good deeds, it is easy for excellent people to become lulled into a sense of infallability.  When you've always done well in school, when you've never been corrected, when you've never really failed, when what you've chosen to do has always been enough and has always been appreciated, or, when it was not, you always had the resources to do it anyway, you begin to think you can do no wrong, that you are above making mistakes, and that your judgment is always right.

They are narcissistic, self-absorbed, and egotistical.  They are very difficult to work with because they refuse to take suggestions. They don't care for the opinions of others.  They're easily offended by any insinuation that their work is less than perfect. They are not team players. But the real They are bereft of self-doubt.  They are their own greatest blind spots.

Working with people like this can be infuriating because they put up such resistance to well-meaning suggestions from people who are not as infallable.

It's also very sad.  Few people are close enough to them to tell them what they are doing wrong.  The people who are close to them are too intimidated by them or else need them far too much to contradict them.  And so they are isolated fools on the hill, openly acknowleged yet secretly mocked. 

I wonder if they ever feel alone? If they do, do they regard their alone-ness as consequence of their greater principles?   Or do they realize that it stems from their isolation from the rest of humanity?