My dear Patience....

Gotta tell ya, I almost snorted my Pepsi when I read that name, until I read your email explanation. Whew! (still blowing it out of my nose) Glad to have you on board. Well I did manage to finally get that nasty homework done last night at 1:40am (it was due before midnight, you think the teacher will notice?) By that time I was ready to write just about anything, ugh. Kept getting stuck on that ole "what did you learn from this and such website?" I could tell ya what they had on the website, I could even comment, but that whole "learning" thing was hard.

This morning was a fog. Although, I did discover I have some hidden talent.... I managed to sew the elastic into both of my youngest's ballet slippers while waiting for Teenager to complete her makeup. On four hours sleep, that is quite an accomplishment! Teenager managed to remain alive all the way to school too. We now have this Hollywood-esque "kissy-kissy" thing we do so as to not mess up her lipgloss.

Enough about the offspring! I need to have my brain "stimulated" in order to keep it from going any further south. So on with adult conversation, yadda, yadda, yadda......

Avoiding my homework....

This is not difficult to do, especially when the question is so difficult. I have to write 500 words on my opinion about Alzheimers patients who wish to commit suicide while their symptoms are still mild. My problem is not the lack of an opinion (of course I have an opinion, smile!) My problem is my professor won't let me just wave the Bible in the air as my reason. She actually expects me to back up my opinion in a logical, thorough manner. Not to mention I could sum it up in about 50 words, but stretching that to 500 is going to be a challenge. Unfortunately for me, while there are plenty of websites on Alzheimers, they don't tend to address this issue. Somehow I think my professor knew that! Anybody with comments, jump right in.....

I will post later on how it all went

--Grace

Deaf stress

I can't wait to get a Sorenson videophone. Relay calls are so frustrating! Today I got yet another person hung up on me because they had "clients" they were taking care of on the other phone line and "didn't have time for this". Good thing I know my vet's fax number, cuz I faxed them asking them to please either call back thru Relay or fax me back to get an appt. Finally got my appt., but this whole process took nearly an hour.

Using the telephone is such a HUGE barrier for me. I procrastinate like crazy every time I have to make a call, cuz I know it will take a ridiculous amount of time to get something accomplished which my hearing husband, or any hearing person for that matter would take 2 minutes to accomplish by phone. There are so many sources of stress, anger, and frustration trying to deal with communication. Sometimes I think I must be the only one that gets so frustrated by this stuff, until a chance turn in a conversation reveals that I am definitely not alone. I was surprised by how much frustration came out of my pastor when we ended up talking about it. So I guess there is a lot more frustration from others, they just don't show it like I do.