My 2 sample essays

I had to write 2 sample essays for my student's final exam. I decided to use real life experiences. These are from when I was a kid/teenager and do not reflect my current way of life;

Here are the 2 essays I am asking for;

Please pick either A or B and type a two page Essay on the topic you have choosen.

A- Write about a time when you did something you were not supposed to do and where it took place. What did you do and why did you do it? How old were you? Explain all details of what happened, -slowly, and step by step. What did you learn from this experience?



B- Write about a disagreement you had with your parents. What was the disagreement about and where did it take place? How did the disagreement start? How did the disagreement end? How old were you when this disagreement happened? Explain in details of what happened, -slowly, and step by step. What did you learn from this experience?


Here are my examples;

I Stole From the Gap!

When I was 15 years old and at MSSD (Model Secondary School for the Deaf) I became friends with a girl name Annie. We both were oral students learning ASL as teenagers. She was one of my closest friends. I discovered one day while we were off campus in George Town that Annie liked to shoplift. I was so surprised because I had never stolen anything before in my life!
After a few more times, she showed me how to shoplift. Basically you take an item or object which has to be pretty small, small enough to slide up your sleeves. We would go to different stores and slide make up and music cassette tapes up our sleeves and walk out the store. This went on for a few months.
One night our dorm had a trip to SpringField Mall in VA, and we were in the Gap store. It was near the winter holidays and I didn’t have any money to buy things so we decided we would each take a shirt from the Gap store and we did. We also stole earrings and necklaces from a Claire’s boutique store and other stuff.
Then riding the bus on the way back to MSSD, Annie and I took our stolen goods out and was bragging about them to the other girls on the bus. We were stupid and admitted we stole from the Gap. One girl who I hated name Deanna was nosey and saw what we signed.
We got back to Dorm D and went to our rooms. About 30 minutes later an REA (Residential Education Advisor) came to my room and told me to come into the office to talk to the CRE (Campus Resident Educator) who was the head of the dorm. I can’t remember the CRE’s name but she confronted us about the things we brought. Making us show her all of the stolen goods. She asked us where the receipts were? We both lied and said we threw them out and put everything in one bag to make it easier to carry. She told us how Deanna said we were bragging about stealing from the Gap. We were busted! Of course I was crying my eyes out but Annie stayed calm and cool. She didn’t care or worry about the CRE calling her parents. I was very upset about my family knowing.
Then the CRE said we would have to go back the next night to the Gap store and return the shirts. She also told us they may call the police and file a report on us but it was their decision not MSSD’s. I cried all night and felt terrible.
The next night, it was just me, and Annie with one REA driving us back to SpringField Mall and I didn’t want to go but had no choice! Annie was quiet the whole ride there. I felt like Annie didn’t care and I started not to like Annie.
We got there and went to the Gap store. I was so ashamed. We gave back the shirts and the Gap store people said they decided not to call the police. The REA said we were very lucky. It was so humiliating to admit it to their faces.
We got back to MSSD and we both were punished with community service and had OCR (off campus restriction) meaning we were not allowed off campus on the weekends for 2 months. Then after that, we both couldn’t go off campus without a staff with us for another month. I stopped hanging out with Annie. She still would steal stuff and brag about it. I never stole again!
I learned that even if you have a friend you like, if they do things that are wrong or convince you to do those things with them. They aren’t your friends. I learned that stealing is wrong and that I don’t like the humiliation of being caught.


I Never Liked Wearing Dresses

My Mother always wanted me to wear dresses. From the time I was a little child throughout most of my teenage years I never liked to wear dresses. Every year for school photos my Mother would beg and plead with me to wear something nice for my picture. I just wanted to wear a tee shirt and jeans. I was not happy at my hearing school. I had no friends and I wanted to be invisible.
When I was a senior at MSSD (Model Secondary School for the Deaf) it was time for graduation. I decided to wear jeans, converse sneakers and a black tee. I figured that I was wearing a graduation gown so no one could see my clothes underneath it.
Well, my assistant principal Vivian Rice read me the “riot act.” Saying the way I dressed was not appropriate and that I needed to go and change my clothes. I told her “I don’t have any dresses or nice pants.” She didn’t believe me. So we went back to the dorm to my room where I opened up my closet and my dresser and I was right, I only had jeans and tee shirts with flannels. Back then I was into heavy metal so of course most of my clothing were dark colored or skulls and roses with thorns. I just couldn’t see what the big deal was.
Then when I went to Gallaudet University, my mother would complain about me dressing so ugly and never using a purse. I said “Mom, who cares, I am not a girly girl!” And then she said “Jenny you are so pretty, why do you want to cover yourself up like that?” She would try to get me to go shopping for new clothes and pick out clothes like skirts and blouses. I wasn’t happy.
I dated one deaf guy for almost 7 years and then we broke up. Somehow something inside of me changed. I no longer wanted to dress down all the time. I wanted to dress pretty so I could feel pretty. I realized that I spent most of my life feeling ugly and my clothes reflected my self-esteem.
My Mom is now happy with the way I dress. I even learned to use a purse. My new boyfriend teases me about the way I used to dress when he sees older photos of me. My Mom was right, I am attractive and I do not need to hide my body in baggy clothing. I still wear jeans a lot but mostly on the weekends. I dress professionally for work, and pretty for when I go out with friends or my boyfriend. Now I go shopping with Mom and it is fun. She loves it when I buy something she picked out for me.
I learned that I don’t have to be invisible or wear ugly clothes. I know now when I see girls dressed in baggy clothes that it may mean they are embarrass about how they look or not comfortable with their bodies. A woman doesn’t have to dress girly but dress nicely. I think when you dress nicely it makes you feel better about yourself.

Krammar Jewish? I dont think so!

Ugh please Michael Richards dont try to make yourself look good by jumping on the Jewish bandwagon. The Jews have already been blamed enough for the discrimination Black people face and we don't need your name added to it. Not that theres any validity to that myth that the Jews want to keep the Black people down, Richard's racist remarks are not of that of a Jew and to call himself as one... Any self-respecting Jew such as myself this to be quite distasteful. You can read more at CNN.

Working on final exam format for my class tonight. I am a little nervous as I have never given a final exam before in my life! But I gotta admit, seeing my name on my student papers "Instructor X X" inflates my ego a bit more than usual. And those who know me know I have quite an ego (often hearies complain of hot air hissing out of my left ear which is unobstructed by a hearing aid)! JK, yeah I do have an ego but not to a point where people avoid me :D

Baba sent me this email earlier and I thought it was a beautiful, but bittersweet memory and I wanted to share it;

It was summer, as you know, so the boys were home from school. X and X were twelve and still little kids, so every day we brought them to our friends the Raudenbushes (Papa called them the Rubberbrushes!), so we could be at the hospital. The Raudenbushes lived at the top of a hill so the road up there was winding. Papa always kept cigars on the dashboard. As we rounded a turn, a cigar slid down to my side and Papa said, "Have a cigar." Then the car turned the other way and the cigar slid back to his side and I said, "No thanks, I just had one." Then we turned again and the cigar slid back to my side and he said, "Have another." Well, at that we just broke up and laughed until we almost cried. As you know, laughter and tears are close cousins. It was a way of coping with the unacceptable although some people might find it strange that we were laughing while X was dying in the hospital.

Baba is right, laughing and crying are more alike than most people realize. Evolution standpoint says laughing occurred in response to being nervous. Like if we were back in the caveman era and we felt threatened, we would laugh and bare our teeth.

Ah.. the scent of cat pee....

For some crazy reason yesterday while I was at work in Queens, I kept smelling cat pee. I checked my shirt, slacks, even my bra. I checked my backpack, purse and my shoes and nada, no cat pee. But still it drove me crazy. Perhaps that was a premonition of what was gonna happen today. When I arrived at my Media job, again I caught the scent of cat piss and realized the black shirt I had for 10 years carried a faint scent of cat pee! Ugh so I went to the nearby store and brought a tee to wear today instead... Damn cats, I came home last night to find a nice mixture of cat vomit and a massive hairball on my bed and comforter, lovely! Gee this is the thanks I get for going out of town for a few days. Tom and Kat not likieee... teach me a lesson or two will they? Now they are banned from my room when I am not home.

A little relaxation goes a long way! My Sweetie, posted this on his blog about my evil influences of being lazy 1x a week (ok, sometimes 2x or 3xs a week...)
On Sunday we got back to the city and totally relaxed. We only went outside once to obtain food and that was about it. We watched a bunch of corny comedies such as Deuce Biegelow: Male Gigolo, but it worked. It was the first time in 2 years that I've just shut down my brain totally for an entire day and did absolutely nothing. The most interesting part was going outside to realize it was already dark by the time I had decided to get dressed to get dinner. I literally can not remember the last time I've just hung around that long doing nothing, but it was definitely worth it.
Funny, he IMed me on Monday telling me he decided to get rid of the garage that he rented for the purposes of working on his cars. When I asked him why? He said he no longer needed it and prefer to have days like we did on Sunday. I agree, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!"

I made a major decision yesterday, I decided not to teach Writing to deaf adults again in Jan. My heart wasnt into it and it was making me miserable because I felt I was doing a disservice to the students who are all a great bunch of kids! They need a teacher who has all the answer and gets a hard on for the English language. I only write well cuz I grew up oral so I write how I speak. Not because I know the correct word order, what verbs are main verbs? Auxillary verbs? Infinitive verbs.... etc etc so when I met with my supervisor I told her the truth that I wasn't digging this subject and I was sorry that I didnt want to keep teaching that class. She was very understanding and although disappointed with my decision, she remarked she thought I was a wonderful teacher but she could sense when she observe my class there was some disconnection between myself and the materials I was teaching. She wished me well and I feel that I will still see her occasionally as one of my mentor for advice.

Now I will contact one other school and see if they need me in Jan because they wanted me this fall but I declined due to conflicts in my schedule. Hopefully they will still want me to teach?

This weekend I plan redo my room set up, the current floorplan sucks and I am going crazy with the chaotic feelings of my room. Thats one of the disadvantages of ADD, when something is bothering you, it makes you nutty and unable to focus on anything but what is bothering you. I cannot ignore my surroundings, if I am not at peace with it, I cannot relaxs.

my hearing aid battery

Would give me away if I ever committed a serious crime. Think about it, all they'd have to do is notify the pharmacy chains, send out a bulletin of a deaf woman, 5 ft 6 inches, 130lbs (ok, 135 lbs), brownish, reddish hair, bluish, greenish eyes, big toothy smile... id be 3 states over and stop by to get diet coke and damnit, on my last hearing aid battery is dying! I'm on the run, trying to elude authorities.

Of course I couldn't listen to the radio, ya know to check in periodically on any news updates. Can't use a non traceable cell phone, same thing, too deaf to use it. Couldn't switch my accent and pretend to be "hearing", its a deaf voice all the way!

I use my hands too much between life and ASL, my fingerprints be all over the damn place. Everyone knows I'm a slob, so of course lots of evidence for "the man" to follow my trail.

Man, CSI sure does give a deafie a lot to think about. I used to major in criminology. I was very interested in learning why some people commit crimes and others don't. Then after a year and 5 classes later. I realized it was a depressing field to be in and knew that reading about it, and learning the theories is fascinating on its own. But real life wouldn't be as exciting or rosy.

1st official review of...

Save the deaf theater at this Znuage blog and I also got the link for an interview with Christy Smith and her experiences with Survivors. Its old news, but for me, I had never seen the video from Deaf Nation, so check it out. I sure do miss Christy, she was a cool chick at Gally and we hit it off like kindred spirits. I hope she is well in Colorado?


Glad to be back in NYC. I do truly consider it to be my home these days. Clyde and I hung around Sunday, watched Garfield's movie "A Tale of Two Kitties" cute. I liked the 1st Garfield movie better.

Not much else to report, the website for my movies is almost done!! Whee and I've contacted several after effect editors for my 1st movie, because damnit, its been 3 long years my friends have been waiting for it and I cannot nor will I delay the completion any longer!

Oh right, I finally saw Ty's movie "The Family Stone." Wow, the clothes were the lamest I had ever seen him in but I know as an actor on a movie set, he had very little say on the wardrobe. But I am proud of Ty, two movies under his belt. Hope more on the way? I did find it ironic that the only diversity the movie included was Ty and his BLACK gay lover. Its always the same story for deafies and Black folks, they get type cast as the deviants from the norms of society and to be embraced by the audience as if they were like everyone else. Helllllll-O, ofc we are like everyone else, is it not 2006? When is Hollywood gonna stop treating Blacks and Deafies as special ed? For example in the movie "Rosemary's baby" it was the Black guy who was the groundkeeper and slighty retarded. Same for "The Green Mile," the one prisoner, a Black man also retarded. *retches* enuff is enuff..

Say Toilet Seat!!

When Baba snapped this pix below, instead of asking us "say cheese", she instead asked us to "say Toilet Seat!!" I replied "Toilet Seat!" and Clyde replied "No!" and began to laugh and voila, a great pix!

Clyde and I arrived to my hometown, in the nasty drizzling rain and cold front. We missed the Thanksgiving dinner, partly because I couldn't get moving so we could get on the road and partly the weather kept us at a safe speed driving wise.

I love the way he drives now. I think he's one of the best drivers I've ever met. When we first starting date, I didn't think so. His old car made me nervous because it didn't feel like anything would stop it if it spun out of control. I like his new car a lot better, its interesting to see how people react when he tells what kind of car he drives. Yeah its a BMW. *yawns* really I don't pay any attention to car makes or whatnots. I am happy if it has 4 wheels and gets me from point A to point B. It could be a cardboard box with wings for all I care. Slap any brandname on it and voila it still a car, you have to pay insurance on and deal with the upkeep. I'm a retired car owner myself. Don't miss it. At the same time, there's perks with dating a guy with a set of wheels, I won't deny that. As long as he wants to remain in the driver seat and me a mere passenger, heck I can live with that!

It was good seeing the folks tonight. My uncle's corn bread pudding, excellent. The turkey too. I didn't get my stuffing fixs because the kind there had mushrooms *retches* mushroom, the horror! The inhumanity!!

Tmw will have lunch with Baba and Clyde before he heads back to NYC for a meeting tmw late afternoon. Then ill head to my Moms place. No way am I getting caught in the whole "Black Friday" deal. Id like to keep all my limbs attached and not have to wrestle some lady over a pair of pants!

I am glad to be here, I needed a break from NYC and my responsibilities. Hope everyone had a wonderful Gobble time!

Boyfriend is watching Racist Seinfeld

*tsk tsk* his ancestors genes would roll in their graves if they knew...

Yep Krammar a closest racist has debut in LA recently, full blown rant tirade led to our KKK membership card inclusion of Michael Richards. Too bad, my boyfriend used to be a big fan of Seinfeld, one of the few Jewish things I had in my favor and he destroyed it, thanks a lot Richards.

Ech today was a day where my head cold kept me indoors more of the day. I ran a few earrands nearby 110th st, I live off of 125th so I was able to avoid downtown mad ass traffic of Holiday travelers.... thank god! I learned my lesson a few years back when a normal 2 1/2 hour drive turned into a 6 hour drive from MD to PA for Thanksgiving. Ever since I only travel on Thanskgiving day, I skip the wednesday horror gridlocks!

I got the cutest pictures from both Ronnie of Averi who is 6 months old and my other friend Joe Joy who became an uncle recently. Babies are so cute, as long as they arent mine. I still havent made up my mind, kids or no kids... the biological clock is a ticking, only a 7 year window left for me.

The kitties both Tom and Kat were so sweet, they laid next to each other by my feet earlier today as I was cleaning and packing. Cylde is here now, we ordered some pizza cuz my roommie has taken the kitchen hostage and has been cooking for a group of 15 to 20 people worth of food but sadly maybe 4 people are expected to show, I dont know why or how she wants to cook so much food all day long??? I truly have lost all intertest in cooking from scratch.

Tmw my sweetie and I head to PA for thanksgiving at my Uncle Robbies. I cant wait, I really enjoy my Mom's stuffing and my uncle Davids corn pudding! Plus turkey and gravey, yum yum!

alrighty to all of you, happy Gobble TIME!
xx

almost over

The event in my opinion went as smoothly as it could. (You know how that story goes, what starts out small, becomes grande). There were some technical difficulties with the chocolate foundue and making cosmo martinis but all in all the attendees made the hard work worthwhile.

The food selection was EXCELLENT, I was quite pleased. Both of the women in charge of that left no stone unturned.

The selected workshop from an outside source went quite well. I like the presentator because she's so energetic and outgoing. I enjoy being around people like that.

The other mini presentation by one of our hostess was quite entertaining and informative. Led to many interesting tidbits for discussions. Hands wave or in this case "hands off" *winks*

The Goody Bags well received. Ill be reviewing which samples, products I liked or didn't like sometime this week.

I overall enjoyed the experience and had the opportunity to meet some new faces, I was quite impress as one of our attendee was a Yale student, grad level. Another traveled from Maryland. One was sick with a cold and still she made the effort to be there.

Will I do it again? I feel like no but my mind screams yes cuz if you aint dead, you better be living! Do something that you consider worthy of your time and energy. I could never do the same thing, day in and out. Occassions like last night open room for other possibilites.

Clyde also gets a BIG worthwhile mentioned in the whole scheme of things. He allowed us to use his post office address, he hefted back and forth packages for the event itself. He drove me to several places the past 2 days to prepare and he was so generous with his time in doing all of this. I consider him to be very supportative in nature. I'm glad he can see and appreciate why I dedicate my efforts to such projects. I would like to reciprocate somehow with his projects, but its difficult because most are related to technology and mechanics. Ill figure out sumthing along the way.

Shortly 2 of the hostesses and I will begin putting the apt back together again. Whew, then the week begins for me. Glad its a short one due to Thanksgiving.

Who nose?

I know its highly frown upon to make English puns out of ASL such as signing "who" but instead of by the mouth, you do it on the nose. So it sounds and looks like "who nose/knows?" Been missing my friend Handler who moved to Baltimore last year. He is always signing crazy stuff like that.

Today got me a cold that kept me in bed most of the morning but finally drag my arse to work at Media services so I could get some hours in today and work on lesson plans. I teach ASL level II tonight and am putting together some activities for review purposes.

Last night Szymanski and I worked on a decoulage (sp?) where you add layers of fine paper with special glue for items for this saturdays private event that we're hosting with two other deafies. We got over 30 sponsors for this event, whee! Friday we will be busy picking up items and preparing for the event which begins saturday evening at 5pm. I am very excited and looking forward to it. Word is starting to get out there of the event itself but I am not at liberty to discuss it on my blog :( afterwards maybe, depends on the other hostesses but no names will be used to protect the identities of the attendees.

I have learned a lot about the art of asking. It really depends on who you asked and where? The very poor areas and the very high scale areas usually said no when we went in person to ask for samples. But the average stores like Body Shop, Sephora... they all agreed and gave us samples to use in the goody bags.

Sunday I plan to do nothing except relax and watch movies all day. I know I will be wiped out by then. Luckily next week is a short week due to Thanksgiving. I am excited to see the folks back home.

Clyde is well, saw him over the weekend. I went to a mall on Sunday in Queens, the first time Ive ever touched a mall here in NYC. I will see him tonight after class too. Hes doing great, busy with his wireless business and he has been helping me out with getting supplies or deliveries for saturday night event.

Not a whole lot of exciting things to write about, basically teaching has taken over my life. So much paperwork. But I am happy to say I did some logging of footage for the 3rd movie this past weekend. I hope to on Sunday finish the logging and then like a puzzle start putting the pieces together.

Save Deaf Theater

My friend Joe Joy has been working very hard these past few months on a project to save "Deaf Theater." I am in the video and I hope he can bring and raise the awareness for the need to fund deaf related cultural endeavors. You can watch the video at this link;

Save Deaf Theater

Last night's ASL class went really well. Tonight is English Writing class. My students for the most part are almost done with their first essays. Its interesting to read what topics they choose (1st date, traveling, deaf and hearing differences and similarities...) Never in my wildest dream did I ever think I would be teaching writing skills but ofc I love it as I have been a writer all my life. I try to help my students see where there may be confusions or unnecessary words or sentences. The goal is not to be wordy but to be clear so the reader can understand what the writer is trying to say? Next Tues will be my first class with a supervisor observing it. I am already nervous about it. Not because I think I do a lousy job but that I may not be doing what she expects or wants? She's very nice and supportative so I know I am worrying for nothing but I am a perfectionist so of course I worry.

Speaking of perfectionist, my boyfriend will not sign 1 word signs only but he rather sign sentences and phrases. But what he doesnt realize is that by not signing words at all, how can he ever hope to sign sentences? You have to have the basics building blocks in order to put them together and form thoughts. He is trying his best and I appreciate it.

Tmw I plan to edit. Yep nothing is gonna stop me tomorrow. I cannot keep putting off my movies, its ridiculous!

How lucky am I!!

How weird is it when you get lucky enough for the following to happen?

Go to the snack machine for a bag of sourdough pretzels to snack on and voila, not only do you get the pretzels but two other candy bars came out too!

Walk down the stairs into the subway station only to see the train is there and you are too late. Well I saw the train conductor and he actually waited for me! I had to run quickly and of course I dropped my metro card but nonetheless he waited! I couldnt believe my luck so of course I shouted before entering the train "How cool are you!!"

To have scored possibly 15 sponsors by emails alone, not counting the freebies King and I gathered on Sunday when we did some footwork here in Manhattan for our private event! Whoever attends this event will more than get their money's worth!

As you can see I am in a great mood. I came across a site called Strange New Products which is worthwhile to check out when you have the time :)

My 5 classes that I am teaching are falling into place and Ive been able to establish a rountine for myself now. I am out 12 hours Mon thru Thurs for both of my jobs. Then Friday I usually take care of things around the apt (laundry, cleaning...) then the weekends are mine (sort of, I often spend one afternoon preparing lesson plans for the following week).

Clyde is well, he joined me for Szymanski's birthday dinner sunday nite where we ate Sushi at Blue Ginger. The Crazy Roll was absolutely delish! I ate too much and had a bad stomach ache the whole night and all of Monday. I will never again eat too much, I learned my lesson.



I have been watching a lot of Home Movies which a cartoon series from Cartoon Network Adult Swim and its hilarious. If you get a chance to check out this grown up cartoon I highly recommend. I also been watching the 1st season of Farscape. I love Netflix!

Pixs from My trip

All of these photos were taken by Karen, still need a firewire to post my photos.


Karen on the morning of the cruise in Miami.(You can see our ship in the background)


Here I am on the way to the Mayan Ruins in Mexico




At the Mayan Ruins, man the misquiotoes crucified us!!


In Mexico at a nearby beach




Here's me snorkeling for the first time!


Here's Karen, already a pro!


I am headed back to the ship for food after a long day of Mexico!!


Karen and me at the Turtle Farm, Grand Cayman Island


Another deaf couple, Jim and Sue from Wisconsin with their coda son.


Me


Me and look-a-like Nicholas Cage (George) petting the turtles.


Yep, me and the turtle, we be happy!


Here's me on the boat, while we head to Sting Ray City, Grand Cayman Island


Karen and a Sting Ray moment


Karen



Me barely touching the Sting Ray...


Karen and George


Karen gets frisky with the locals!

Unwinding at the end of the week is always hard for me. Once I know I'm off the next day, instead of being able to sleep, I become even more wired. I have a bad habit of thinking about several things at once, and getting catch up with my "plans." What I mean by "plans" is anything to do with my life. So far here is what I've been planning;

Reflecting on how teaching went this week and mentally making notes of what I want to do next week.

Drooling about editing (haven't done any since before the cruise- I am not happy)

Planning a private event for later this month (which I'm looking forward to, but a lot of effort team effort among myself and three other deafies).

Thinking about tmw's errands (one involves going to the Bronx UPS store for a pick up).

Making time to see "my partner in crime" Clyde (aka Tin Man).

Making time to see friends, like today I finally had lunch with Blondie. Tmw night I will see Joe Joy. This weekend is Szymanski's bday. Of course this is my precious Greek Bazar weekend and seeing my family :(

But I mostly out of all of my plans, I want to edit and prep lessons for my 5 classes. The syllabus(es) are all done, finally got that monkey off of my back. I think that's what I dislike teaching the most is the LONG term planning of schedule for education related courses.

On a different note, this week of teaching went MUCH better than last week. I actually have had some time to go over the materials used in these classes, and get to know my students more. Plus try different ways of teaching methods.

Another thing I'm extremely pleased is the fact the Clyde has started ASL class last week. I already see some of the benefits from it. Its interesting to see which signs he acquires quickly. Of course the iconic ones are always easy but the abstract signs I'm refering to. For example, when we first started dating, he used "Improve"/ "Decline" sign a lot. Which while not iconic, conceptually makes a lot of sense. He's gonna be a wiz at this anyway because he's very animated by nature. [For hearing standards that is.] Useful for deafies (of course!), it makes the conversation a lot more fascinating. Better than some guy with out any facial expression and a flat, lifeless voice talking. What deafie in their right mind wants to work that hard at lipreading and struggle to understand that kind of hearing person. I mean really, why don't you just put a paper bag over your head?

Ok I got my blog fix and I can try to go to sleep. See see...