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. |