I need to get another audiogram done. Right now I have the TV cranked above 30, and I had the radio cranked up in the car this morning, too. I haven’t been able to hear any of my professors this week; several of them speak along with their signing, usually just above a whisper, but [...]
Archive for January, 2009
RID Conference
I’m going to the RID conference! An amazing person offered me the difference between the regular and student rates, so I was able to go. I don’t even know the person, they just offered me the difference and asked for my PayPal account. I am so touched, I hope I get to meet them in [...]
Donate to Best Friends
I just donated $25 to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and you should do. I am as broke as the next college student, but I love animals, and they do the best work on the planet. They take in the hardest luck cases, the “non-adoptables,” and turn them into adoptables. I’m the kind of person who [...]
No Scuba
I think I shall never become a scuba diver. I had my first class today at school. For those who don’t know, I had an injury on a 2006 “discover scuba” trip in Bermuda; my hearing was damaged as a result of this. But the world underwater was SO cool, and I really wanted to [...]
Flight for Hawaii
My flight for Hawaii is booked! Woo hoo! From To Leave Arrive From To Leave Arrive IAD LAX 4/17 2:20pm 4/17 4:45pm LAX HNL 4/17 6:00pm 4/17 8:45pm HNL LAX 4/26 12:50pm 4/26 9:20pm LAX IAD 4/26 10:35pm 4/27 6:30am That is the best damn itinerary I could hope for – doesn’t involve any waking [...]
Selling Schoolbooks for Fun and Profit
I had placed a Half.com order for Study of American Deaf Folklore a few weeks ago, and shortly after I got a refund because they didn’t have the book available. It was about $30 for a used copy, and at the time the only other one I could buy online was an $80 copy! I [...]
Birthday Presents
I had a great 28th birthday! For presents, I got: Seasons 1 and 2 of DS9, leaving me lacking only Season 3, which my friend says he will get me as a late Xmas present A totally awesome Hello Kitty phone with caller ID and light-up bits Serenity on DVD Yesterday’s Tomorrows $50 that I [...]
More Tweets
These are occasionally altered for easy reading. I CARE ABOUT YOU! I like to think undressing in front of the window is setting up the 12 y/o across the street to be either a BBW fetishist, or gay. My family has decided I need to make this: http://www.phobe.com/fsmhat/ Tom Jones is wailing about Delilah on [...]
Hello Hawaii
Looks like the trip to Hawaii is on! We leave April 17th and I come back on the 26th; :A: may or may not stay an extra couple of days. I am NOT thrilled about missing class for it, but my friend pointed out that school is school, and Hawaii is something I’ll always remember. [...]
To Prevent Collapse
I’m reading Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed right now, and it perfectly illustrates why I want to become a historian. If a civilization doesn’t write things down, they will become lost. Just writing is not enough, of course; the Maya wrote things down but Diego de Landa destroyed some [...]