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damkiannaI just woke up from a very interesting dream, of which I actually remember some contiguous parts. There was something going on at "my house", by which I mean it felt like my house to dream!me, but had no actual resemblance to my rl house, and there were people over because of it. (This is the part I remember least well.) I was meant to walk one of them home, which I did, nearly getting hit by a car in the process. The person's family came home soon after, and I was looking around this house, and there was this one wall with a super creepy painting/sculpture of one of the person's brother's ex-girlfriends. Suddenly my dream went into flashback mode, and - shocker, right? - it wasn't actually a painting/sculpture; one of the person's sisters had done something to the wall, made it like a mirror except you could walk through it, and pushed the girlfriend in; except she'd managed to push half her face back out again before the sister had managed to harden the wall up again, which was why the "painting/sculpture" existed. I don't think Girlfriend was dead, just ... stuck. It was kind of cool in a creepy way - it would have bugged me more if all this had not happened with me under the distinct impression that, should the dream continue, I would be fixing this situation. Also, for at least part of it, dream!me was a dude, which has actually happened several times.
I had a little trouble going to sleep last night because of an extremely long bout of asymmetrical tinnitus. It's the first time that I can remember my ears ever ringing for that long, and I'll admit it makes me a little nervous, after all that stuff in Intro Audiology about how asymmetry usually means a referral, because it could be a sign of something wrong neurologically. However, it's only happened the once, so. If it starts happening on a regular basis, then I might see about getting it checked out.
Which reminds me: yes, Hearing Rehab is still on notice. Hard. I actually wrote "fuck you" in my notebook two or three times while taking notes, because it was seriously driving me out of my tree. We were talking about Deafness and reading, and it just - maybe I'm being too picky, but the professor just would not be careful about what she was saying. Sign languages HAVE GRAMMAR, they HAVE VOCABULARY; Deaf people often have trouble learning to read and write with English grammar and vocabulary, because they are essentially ESL learners. I'd have trouble if the only exposure I got to a language with an alphabet that made no intuitive sense to me were reading it, too. She talked about making sure you get an interpreter when you have complicated documents a Deaf person needs to deal with as though it wasn't completely obvious; of course you would, just the same way you would get an interpreter if someone whose native language were Spanish, and who did not know very much English, needed to sign paperwork that was only available in English. DUH.
There were also several moments where she got weird and condescending about ASL grammar, which was obnoxious. And I kind of loathed the way she kept talking about brain development. Yes, okay, auditory deprivation can affect how your auditory processing centers develop - i.e., how well you will later be able to process spoken language. But ... if your primary mode of communication is something other than spoken, then that ... really doesn't matter much. (I mean, obviously it can affect your ability to achieve whatever competency you choose with spoken language, if you acquire an assistive device at some point, but.) That's why development is affected - you aren't using it, so it gets pruned. I just - she seemed to be making this big hairy deal about how it would affect people's ability to acquire language, except it doesn't - it affects people's ability to acquire spoken language. If I expect anyone in the world to remember to make that distinction clear and obvious, it's somebody in CMSI who ought to know this shit. And she just ... never did; not once, through the whole class. >.<
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ladiesbigbang A:TLA fic during class, which I know is awful and wrong and awful and I did it anyway. /o\ I have essentially finished the first chunk, and it is clocking in at over six thousand words. There are supposed to be around twenty such chunks total, which means that if this keeps up, I am staring 120k words of fic in the face. D: And it's not even the first time; I keep cleverly chaining myself to these massive canon-rewrite "what if" AUs, it's like my catnip. The first fic of the HP AU series is nearly 90k words, and those are probably only going to get longer as they go on (this is assuming I ever even make it through them before I die, natch).
why, brain?!? whyyyyyyyy.
Still, I can't complain too much. At least I have a plan, which is a relief; it's not like I'm diving into 120k words not knowing where it's going. That would be scarier.
I had a little trouble going to sleep last night because of an extremely long bout of asymmetrical tinnitus. It's the first time that I can remember my ears ever ringing for that long, and I'll admit it makes me a little nervous, after all that stuff in Intro Audiology about how asymmetry usually means a referral, because it could be a sign of something wrong neurologically. However, it's only happened the once, so. If it starts happening on a regular basis, then I might see about getting it checked out.
Which reminds me: yes, Hearing Rehab is still on notice. Hard. I actually wrote "fuck you" in my notebook two or three times while taking notes, because it was seriously driving me out of my tree. We were talking about Deafness and reading, and it just - maybe I'm being too picky, but the professor just would not be careful about what she was saying. Sign languages HAVE GRAMMAR, they HAVE VOCABULARY; Deaf people often have trouble learning to read and write with English grammar and vocabulary, because they are essentially ESL learners. I'd have trouble if the only exposure I got to a language with an alphabet that made no intuitive sense to me were reading it, too. She talked about making sure you get an interpreter when you have complicated documents a Deaf person needs to deal with as though it wasn't completely obvious; of course you would, just the same way you would get an interpreter if someone whose native language were Spanish, and who did not know very much English, needed to sign paperwork that was only available in English. DUH.
There were also several moments where she got weird and condescending about ASL grammar, which was obnoxious. And I kind of loathed the way she kept talking about brain development. Yes, okay, auditory deprivation can affect how your auditory processing centers develop - i.e., how well you will later be able to process spoken language. But ... if your primary mode of communication is something other than spoken, then that ... really doesn't matter much. (I mean, obviously it can affect your ability to achieve whatever competency you choose with spoken language, if you acquire an assistive device at some point, but.) That's why development is affected - you aren't using it, so it gets pruned. I just - she seemed to be making this big hairy deal about how it would affect people's ability to acquire language, except it doesn't - it affects people's ability to acquire spoken language. If I expect anyone in the world to remember to make that distinction clear and obvious, it's somebody in CMSI who ought to know this shit. And she just ... never did; not once, through the whole class. >.<
Anyway. I also wrote over a thousand more words of maybe!
ladiesbigbang A:TLA fic during class, which I know is awful and wrong and awful and I did it anyway. /o\ I have essentially finished the first chunk, and it is clocking in at over six thousand words. There are supposed to be around twenty such chunks total, which means that if this keeps up, I am staring 120k words of fic in the face. D: And it's not even the first time; I keep cleverly chaining myself to these massive canon-rewrite "what if" AUs, it's like my catnip. The first fic of the HP AU series is nearly 90k words, and those are probably only going to get longer as they go on (this is assuming I ever even make it through them before I die, natch).why, brain?!? whyyyyyyyy.
Still, I can't complain too much. At least I have a plan, which is a relief; it's not like I'm diving into 120k words not knowing where it's going. That would be scarier.
