Communication is Fundamental

When I was a teacher at a Scientology based school, I got an amazing education myself.
I learned a lot about Scientology, which is really fascinating, and NOT to be confused with Christian Science (completely different!). It is all about clearing up "misunderstoods" in life, in learning, and in the mind.
L. Ron Hubbard was a really fascinating guy, not some crazy kook people have made him out to be (although, some Scientologists are a little wacky at times, and can take things too far). He was super intelligent. I can't remember the exact details of his story, but the gist of it is: "man gets injured by bomb exploding near him in war, goes blind, and then clears up his own blindness with the power of his own mind, launching him into more discoveries of mind over matter, and the likes, and our government tried to hire him for brainwashing and mind control, and he refused due to his ethical nature, then they turned him into the 'bad guy' because that is what they do to people who don't cooperate."
Hubbard created a ton of teaching and learning materials, and the big thing that the Scientologists get into is his "Communication Skills" books, actually volumes of books and huge intensive and long seminars on the subject of communication. There are something like 4 or 5 week-long seminars until you get certified as a master communicator.
While I taught at the school, I had to learn the basic building block book on Communication. It was great, and I feel it actually did help a lot with the kids, even as young as 4, and in my own life.
So, I wrote this tonight to say that I temporarily had a lapse of memory and did not use the skills I learned. I was ranting about Dr. Matt, and now have realized it was unfounded. In a nut shell, Dr. Matt is extremely lazy and naive at the same time. He is not a "bad guy" and really wasn't trying to do us harm. He is just plain stupid, and has really poor judgment (yes, I know, I am not a saint either, even though it is in my name!). He actually thought Doug would understand that he didn't have enough time to find a place (uh...hello...2 1/2 months isn't enough time?- well in his world it isn't, because he is a snail.) His wife is losing her job, and was told this right before Doug said he didn't want to practice with him. He also actually thought he could get them a place downtown Greenville, on Main Street for $500 a month! He also stupidly thought Doug would truly leave some things in the office for him because he didn't think that Doug would be upset over the whole deal.
Doug (my funny husband) says, "Sure Matt, I will leave you some things. Let's see...there are 7 doors here, a toilet, some windows, a counter, and a tiled floor, oh and as an added treat, a few nicely painted walls. What do you think of that?" Matt just laughed, but had this "yikes!" look on his face.
It was fun cleaning up the office today. I felt like the Grinch. I kept singing to myself, "You're a mean one, Mrs. Grinch," as I scraped everything off the door except "closed" and OUR office's phone number. My one little jab, and don't worry karma already got me with a scraped up finger while doing it, but I think I can live with that!