For the online ASL class I'm taking, I'm supposed to attend two Deaf events and then make a video of myself signing about it. The closest Deaf events around here are near Harrisburg, which is a two and a half hour drive. (The instructor of the course also tried searching for nearby Deaf events, and that's all she found, too.) I said that I can't attend one of them for the assignment due this week. She said OK, and gave me an alternate assignment, but said that I should plan ahead for the second event, and maybe bring someone along if it would make me feel more comfortable. It actually would (I'm really not so good at walking into a room of strangers), but I don't think I know anybody who I can ask to drive five hours round trip with me to go to an event where they don't know the language.
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OK. I need to breathe. Stressing about this Deaf event thing is making me too wound up to do any of the things I need to do today. (Today I need to: grade written homework, write quiz, set up online homework, prep lesson plan, and do ASL quiz.)
A somewhat more aggressive grammarian.
Ha! I think Teppy needs to own that on a mug or something.
Hil, I'm sorry your assignment is stressing you out. Best of luck figuring something out.
I have not heard back on our offer on the house yet. They said they would get back to us this morning and morning is almost over. Grr!
Grr! Get your offer in gear, sj's house people!
I can only finger spell but I wish I could go with you, Hil.
Jilli asked about the brand of absinthe, it's Lucid (I opened it and asked, "Do you think it'll help?"
I do like licorice liquers but I prefer Sambuca to Ouzo, to narrow it down.
OMG drama llama is trying to get me fired. Too much to go into on iPhone, but including trying to spread a rumor that I kept my job by sleeping with my boss. Fucking toxic.
I...was about to suggest trying to find a deaf event on-line to attend via Skype.
Then I realized the participants could freaking TYPE. Good lord, la idiota.
Need more caffeine.
That problem does seem to reflect be a lack of foresight in the instructor's part -- there's a school for the deaf in KC, so an ASL instructor here would have lots of events to choose from, but...
OMG, smonster, WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?
OMG drama llama is trying to get me fired. Too much to go into on iPhone, but including trying to spread a rumor that I kept my job by sleeping with my boss. Fucking toxic.
Yeah, that sounds like ground for firing Drama Llama.
smonster, that is evil. I hope karma kicks him in the ass.
We received a counter offer that is an absolute joke. So, we're probably going to think about it for a couple of days and maybe counter offer with something more reasonable, but I need to try to deal with the fact that we're probably just going to have to walk away from this. They had a chimney fire a few years back and they're trying to count the repairs that they made after that fire as upgrades. It was probably covered by insurance. I'm shaking right now, and I have to pull myself together to go babysit.