Okay, I gotta see what projects are coming due.

• Sign variation presentation - due April 10
• Deaf community membership paper - due april 17
• source list for history project - due april 10
• annotated bibliography - due april 30
• first draft of position paper - due april 9

That’s all I can think of right now but I should check syllabuses for more…

Argh! My Blackberry got delivered yesterday, or they tried at least. If my sister-in-law had called me last night like I’d asked her to do when it arrived, I could have rushed to the local post office and picked it up this morning! But no, she didn’t, and I didn’t get over to the house today until well after the post office had closed, so now I have to wait until Monday morning. Fortunately the 7 days “no questions asked” return policy doesn’t start until the USPS shows it as delivered, and that won’t happen until I sign for it Monday morning. But I could have been playing with it right now!

We are spending the night at our own house tonight, to play with our kitties (Tubbles is here on the bed with us) and hang out. I did homework for my Sex & Gender class for six hours today. Arguing the case against gay marriage on Monday is going to be absolutely brutal. And worse, we can’t seem to pick a time to get together to discuss it. It’s going to be fabulous…NOT.

This is just another gripe about my in-laws being so noisy at night. My brother-in-law is really noisy by default, he grew up in a loud household and he doesn’t know how to close cabinets quietly, close doors quietly, etc. He also thinks it’s okay to talk to himself and sing to himself all the time, so he’ll blurt out all kinds of stuff to himself just walking around the house at night. He apparently never learned that doing the dishes makes noise, because he does them at 11pm sometimes. Bang clatter crash! And him and my sister-in-law have a habit of singing to each other…really loud…as if nobody else lived here. It just drives me crazy. They’re good kids, I like them fine, I think they’re great…but why do they hafta be so loud?!

I am working on my research project about accreditation. I think my thesis is going to be along the lines of “Despite the need for improvement in K-12 deaf education and despite the cultural differences between Gallaudet and other universities, we can retain our accreditation with MSCHE” etc. Something like that.