Tonight I’m interpreting for the opening meeting for contestants in American Brotherhood Weekend. When I interpreted last year for this contest, it was just the contest itself. This year, though, there are two deaf contestants, so there’s more to be done. fairerhiannon and I both have to work tomorrow; we only found out a few days ago about the deaf contestants, so we didn’t have time to arrange time off. Guess who’s theoretically interpreting tomorrow…the one who didn’t show up for LLC. I really hope she shows up this time, but if not they’re going to rearrange things so fairerhiannon can pick up when she gets there at 2:00 or so.

The contest itself is going to be tough, because whenever there’s a deaf contestant onstage, we’ll both be working. One of us will be onstage signing for the audience, and the other will have to have a chair in the front row where we can sit to sign for the deaf contestant. That person will also have to have a microphone in her lap to do any voice interpreting that comes up; contestants don’t say a whole lot but they do have a little speech or two.

It’s going to be fun, though - I had a great time last year and I’ve been looking forward to this year.