My Day

 Lunch 

 Chuck has so much poise.

 Visiting David at Merry Lea

 Driving home from Fort Wayne.

Stephen

Davids little brother just graduated!   

The Twins

   My friend Heather had twins in November and they are gorgeous... Hadley & Lucas are quite a bundle of personalities. 

So Appalled

Alright.  I'm down for crazy music videos and I understand that I need to view the media not as a person but as a whole grouping without standards, but upon recently watching the "monster" music video by Kanye west... from the first 30 seconds played I was shocked.  There were women being hung, decapitated and lied dead, naked surrounding the artists during the song.

I would hope that people would agree that this is a degrading view of women.. it brought a dominance for men and objectified the women.  It seems as though videos become more and more extreme to bring the 'wow' factor to the table.. it expresses a sort of desperate nature that says "hey look at the dead and naked women in my video...i need to try something so inhumane so you'll pay attention".  Is this what we hold our standards to?  Does this challenge our brains?  Does it get us to think about what we are capable of?  Is this really our best.... I just hope that if you do chose to watch this, either determine your own perspective or if you are a man, put yourself in my shoes, as if you were a woman.

http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/62296/Kanye-West-ft-Jay-Z-Rick-Ross-Nicki-Minaj-Monster-Official-Music-Parody/

ASL Poetry Night

Come to Goshen College for a night full of ASL Poetry!  This will be voice interpreted and appropriate for all audiences.  This is a great opportunity if you have never experienced poems in ASL.  The night will include dessert and entertainment for $3!

"Cherish" By Noel

This is a student from Columbia in Chicago that I went to school with at Gallaudet.  Often in ASL Lit class we ask, "can it be literature if a hearing person is signing it?".  We struggle with this question as interpreters, wanting to including ourselves into the Deaf community, hoping to be accepted.  I would call this ASL literature, simply because Noel uses ASL to express her "Cherish" story.  She uses specific handshapes and classifiers to express the message throughout her poem.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7E3ai3QKo&feature=related

The Sweet & the Sour

Have you heard?  My life is insane.

Sweet:  I got to go to Chicago last weekend and see a good friend.

Sour:  I couldn't afford it but did it anyway.

Sweet: I got to spend a full day in front of the tv watching some movies with Kate.

Sour:  I didn't pack as a result of the tv, movie watching day and forgot my taxes, dads birthday gift and medicine in my apartment.

Sweet:  I got to go home for the rest of the week!

Sour:  My grandma and my mom live together..... ha, enough said.

Sweet:  My mom, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, spoke at an event 5 years ago and a woman who was affiliated with Harvest Food Bank heard her story and felt compelled to give my mom a free pass at any time to the food bank.  This past weekend I told my mom how I was barely affording food at my apartment and she decided to take me to the food bank.  I got so much free food!  I felt so blessed that an opportunity and a resource so awesome was available to me and that it has provided for my mom throughout these years.  We are truly blessed.

Sour:  It was exhausting to be overwhelmed with so much great food (which is really not a bad thing at all...)

Sweet:  David is coming home in one month!!

Sour:  David is coming home in one month.... (ha, it seems so far away)