The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Jdvn1]

Awesome! I have a deaf brother too.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

That sucks, especially for him. But what does it matter- we all know Dallas will lose.

Yup. Julius Peppers will pwn them.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Sorry to hear that. I guess in part this is why I stick with EN World

Yup. Here and the WOTC boards. They act better than NL people.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Got great news a few hours ago- my Kayaks are in and will be here tommorrow. Yee-haw! If only they were just a bit sooner so I could get a decent shot at using them before putting into storage.

What are you? Some sort of transplanted Southerner?

 

[Aurora]

Awesome! I have a deaf brother too.

Really? Wow, don't run into that very often. How old is your brother? My brother is 24 and has had a hell of a time figuring out what he wants to do (career-wise).
I love running into deaf people and being able to talk to them. They are always so happy to come across people who sign. I can only imagine it would be like me being in a foreign country and running into a person who speaks English, ya know. You automatically have a connection and are glad to meet that person.

 

[Jdvn1]

Really? Wow, don't run into that very often. How old is your brother? My brother is 24 and has had a hell of a time figuring out what he wants to do (career-wise).

I know! Weird. My brother's 25 (is he really that old? wow! his birthday was this month) and in law school. He's always been a very active spokesperson for deaf communities. He speaks very well, and is very opinionated. I've helped him throughout his life to get his pronunciation, enunciation, and grammar to be so good that most people don't realize he's deaf. He's active on a deaf lawyer forum, where he's met successful deaf lawyers, such as one that graduated Harvard undergrad and Harvard law.

Can you tell I'm proud of my brother? He's in law school, and it's hard for him, but I hope he does well.

I love running into deaf people and being able to talk to them. They are always so happy to come across people who sign. I can only imagine it would be like me being in a foreign country and running into a person who speaks English, ya know. You automatically have a connection and are glad to meet that person.

I talk with deaf people at my bookstore, and I love signing with them. I suck at signing, but I think they appreciate that I try. Deaf culture is really interesting, and when deaf people gather, it's a lot of fun.

 

[Aurora]

I too can't believe that my brother is already 24! (he'll be 25 in 2 mos- makes me feel old)That is really interesting about your brother. It is wonderful that he has been able to find his niche. You should be proud! My brother recently (I guess it's been like 9 mos now) discovered being a chef, and he loves it. It's kind of wierd how he got the job, but he is currently working under a chef who has won the California chef of the year a few times. So, he is finishing up business school and then going to chef school.
I could be better at signing. It shows that I don't use it all that much anymore. However, it wouldn't take me long at all to get back into the swing of it. Deaf culture can be a strange thing. I know for awhile my brother fell into the whole hating hearing people thing. Blaming everyone for his disability, etc. It was a dark time in his life.

 

[Aurora]

So, I had a freaking fantatic day today, and not too terribly bad of a weekend. How did everyone else's weekend go?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

So, I had a freaking fantatic day today, and not too terribly bad of a weekend. How did everyone else's weekend go?

Swimmingly. Not a single wave to disturb the calm of my sea.

 

[Aurora]

Swimmingly. Not a single wave to disturb the calm of my sea.

Speaking of what you just said and scottsdale, AZ, where you live......how long have you lived there? I love Scottsdale...expensive as hell though.....anyways, what you said reminds me- back in (I think it was) 1992 or 3, there was the Big Bear earthquake. If I remember correctly it hit like a 6.4 or something like that. We talked to some friends in Scottsdale a few days after it happenned and they had felt it all the way in Scottsdale...in fact, it made a bunch of water splash out of their pool. That was a cool summer. I was actually at a camp in Big Bear when it happenned. All of these other kids were all scared and I was like "This is SO cool!".....[end ramblings]