Uninvited
Uninvited. Again. I’m getting tired of being uninvited. The first time this happened was when I was an eager M.A. graduate student, new to my academic discipline and flush with success from my first experience of filing an ADA complaint with the US Department of Justice. A professor in my department told me about a [...]
Pizza in DC
I love pizza, I’ll admit. In between stops at my local pizzeria (Today’s Pizza in Capitol Hill), I’ll snack on frozen pizza from the grocery store and an occasional slice from a place near where I work. I’ve always decried that DC was not a pizza city, but perhaps this is changing. New places are [...]
Davila, The Pride Of Gallaudet…And RIT/NTID, Too!
Time to wind up the good ol’ RIT vs. Gallaudet rivalry again. Except that, this time, distinguished Gallaudet President Dr. Davila, not a bunch of drunk, obscene adolescents at a pep rally, started it. I refer to this video clip from the September 6th Town Hall meeting posted on Gallaudet’s website. It’s a rousing speech, [...]
Umphium Mai: Final Part, A Tea Break
Recently, I traveled to Thailand and visited a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). The main event of the day was a visit to the opening ceremony of an English instruction program. See blog part one, two, and pictures for more. Teatime at Umphium is a delicious affair, beyond price. Sitting [...]
Umphium Mai, Part Two: The English Immersion Program
Recently, I traveled to Thailand and visited a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). The main event of the day was a visit to the opening ceremony of an English instruction program. See blog part one and pictures for more. As part of our visit to Umphium, we experienced the opening [...]
Overheard
So on Saturday night, I went out to Madam’s Organ in Adams Morgan with four other girlfriends. One’s Deaf, two are interpreters, and one was in the Peace Corps around the same time as me and learned KSL (Kenyan Sign Language). So we all used ASL, sometimes KSL, while chatting with one another. The table [...]
Umphium Mai: In Pictures
Recently, I traveled to Thailand and visited a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). Here is a photo journey through the camp.
Umphium Mai, Part One: The Refugee Camp
For the past two weeks, I have been travelling in Thailand, and here is an excerpt from my writings on a refugee camp that I visited on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). Resting on the mist-shrouded hills, temporarily, permanently, Umphium is a sprawl of Burmese people, a spread of thick thatch, a sprinkling of roads, [...]
Hello, Metro
Date: 18 June 2007 Location: Blue Line, toward Franconia-Springfield It’s been a while. I thought that today as I stepped on the Metro for the first time in 9 months. Sure, I’ve taken short jaunts on public transportation, both bus and Metro, in the last 9 months. But not as a commuter. I had many [...]
Speech, Speech, Speech!
No, I’m not going on an ill-advised mission for advocating speech therapy. Rather, what my subject heading refers to is the multitude of speeches some of us in the DC area were lucky enough to enjoy (subtext: gagged, tied down, and unwillingly made to watch) last week. As many of you know, last week was [...]