Gallaudet Workshop

I went to my company’s main office for my annual review today; it’s pretty much the only time I get over there anymore. I’m basically entirely cut off from them, I knew the office had moved up a floor but I didn’t realize so many of the major admin people had left. I said hi to a few people and then told the president of my plans for going to Gallaudet; he suggested I could stay with the company and work part-time VRS around my class schedule, so I may do that.

My annual review went pretty well. I don’t know exactly how big my raise is, probably between 3.5-5% - they use a mathematical formula to calculate it but I wasn’t there for the math part. I was invited to join a few of the supervisors (including my own) who were going to a workshop at Gallaudet - 0.15 CEU’s for free! Since it would end at 12 and I was taking leave starting at 1:00, my supervisor said I didn’t have to go back to the office. The workshop was about the structure of personal narrative in ASL, and I learned a bit. Next I went to the bookstore and bought a jacket (to replace my ratty old WMC jacket that A’s been bugging me to get rid of) and a license plate frame (to replace the one that broke when I took it off the Saturn). After that I had lunch with my friend :R:, who I hadn’t really gotten to chat with in a long time. I used to see him every single day for lunch because we worked a block apart, but then I started interpreting and he switched jobs and we never saw each other. He got a job at Gallaudet, so we had lunch in his office.

Afterward I went to Fort Belvoir to pick up my DTG food. It only took about 20 minutes to get there, and I was home within about an hour of leaving Gallaudet. I watched the woot-off some more, and ended up buying a Navman iCN 330 in-car navigation device for $200. I’ve been wanting one for a while anyway, and after my adventures in Philadelphia I really wanted one, so I got it. It’s usually about $230-250 elsewhere, so $200 was good. It’s “remanufactured” whatever that means - I don’t know the difference between that and refurbished - but hopefully it’ll work!

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