The interpreter coordinator for the cruise sent out a mass e-mail to all of the deaf people who will be on the trip, giving the names and e-mail addresses for the three terps. Most of the deaf passengers were listed as their first initial and last name, and I saw one such combination that I recognized as a teacher from Gallaudet. She was my ASL IV teacher, and I knew she was a lesbian but that didn’t necessarily mean anything in this case. So I e-mailed and politely asked if this “J. Doe” was the Jane Doe who taught at Gallaudet, and if not would he or she please forgive the intrusion. It was the same Jane Doe! She is now teaching ASL at a high school in Florida, and she still has the same hearing dog she had just gotten when she was my teacher. The dog won’t be coming along on the cruise, though. But it’s going to be interesting interpreting for one of my former teachers! That happened to me once before while interpreting locally; I recognized a client but couldn’t place her and it turned out she’d led an ASL discussion group offered by the county that I’d participated in some years before. Hopefully I have improved since I was in her class.