Thanks to Breza, I have been poring over the newly-released U.S. Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895 at Ancestry.com – thank goodness I have a membership! I know I’ve already mentioned it on Twitter and Facebook, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. I’m already finding interesting little [...]
Posts Tagged ‘deafness’
Hard of Hearing Interpreter
Somebody asked me on Facebook about being a hard of hearing interpreter. I figured I should blog my response so I don’t have to type it out again next time somebody asks. The main challenge as a hard of hearing interpreter is that you can’t accept just any job. You have to be able to [...]
Police Procedurals (29/49)
I love me some police procedurals. That’s the technical term for shows like CSI, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order, etc. Given that there is one airing just about every minute of the day if you have enough channels, I’d say plenty of other people love them too. So I have the same questions I [...]
Hearing Update
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 [...]
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 [...]
Irony vs. Fate
Sometimes people say my hearing loss is ironic. I have been involved in the deaf world for all these years, and now I have a hearing loss of my own. People love to comment about the irony of this, so much that I’m tired of hearing about it. Now I think of it in terms [...]
Sweet Nothing
IMDb says that if I enjoyed “Sweet Nothing in My Ear” I will enjoy “Sound and Fury” – well, that’s pretty accurate, because the former is basically a fictionalized version of the latter. Yup, the old CI debate again, this time starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels.Thoughts: It showed that some deaf people are very [...]
Protected: Expensive Aids
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Audiology Results
Today was my first day back on campus. Sex & Gender class went fine in the morning, I am caught up with everything (I think). Tomorrow we’ll find out how much I fell behind in my other classes, and whether I can catch up quickly or what. I know I fell behind in my linguistics [...]
College Bowl
Tonight I had a 30+ minute post-practice chat with the College Bowl coach. He wanted me to know that if I become a “regular” student, I WILL be on the team going to New Orleans in July for the competition. He immediately asked if :A: would come too, so apparently I would get my own [...]
