Could you speak up?

Everyone I talk to is deaf. People are always not hearing me. Usually they don't care what I'm saying, so it's not a problem, but often I have to repeat the things I say in a louder voice, sometimes I even have to move my lips to enunciate my words to their satisfaction. This is a daily sampling of times that people weren't listening closely enough or had beans in their ears or something.

Sunday October 11, 1998

I didn't talk to anyone for most of the day. In the evening, however, I talked to Kevin "I don't have time to make a homepage" Konkle about thermodynamics and Jeff Hamblin about the pumping lemma and other stuff. I don't think either of them had trouble hearing me. I talked to some other people too (really!) including Hari.

Monday October 12, 1998 CS 810 classmate and group member Raghavan Komondoor didn't hear me today when I said "I'll send myself email to make sure I remember." I'm sure there were other people who didn't hear me, but I'm having trouble remembering.
Tuesday October 13, 1998

I talked to Alberto "my webpage is almost done, I only have to upload it" Hernandez about his thesis, and he didn't understand me whan I said "that's just like an advsor...". Later I said to Hari "I'm just looking for a piece" (as in, a piece I needed to put my bike back together) but he thought I said "I'm looking for my keys" and pointed out where my keys were.

Later we went out to celebrate Hari's 21st birthday, and numerous misunderstandings took place.

Wednesday October 14, 1998

My Philosophy 220 professor was taking roll call in discussion today (he doesn't usually do the discussions) and he couldn't hear me when I said my name.

At work, Jennifer didn't hear me when I said something about math, and then she didn't hear me again when I said "I'm going to put this on my web page." Jon misunderstood me several times today including once when I said "you could call me up and misunderstand me".

Thursday October 15, 1998

Alberto misunderstood me once when I talked to him at work today, but I for get what we were talking about. Ning didn't hear me when I told her that there was a tape in the tape cleaning machine. I think that's about it.

Friday October 16, 1998

Billy didn't hear me when I asked him if he'd looked at my web page this lately.

Saturday October 17, 1998

I went to the end of the season CronoMetro party with Amy and lots of people couldn't hear me, but it was pretty noisy.