Saturday morning miscellany
Apr. 16th, 2005 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI've had a pretty relaxing and productive morning but I still have a couple of things I want to do before I head off to babysit for a million hours, mostly the cat box. I already scraped and rinsed off Jen's breakfast pan, put clean towels away, and changed the sheets on the bed. And ate a sandwich. I can't believe I'll be essentially working all day today after a full work week. I really signed up for this to get a couple of hours here and there, bleh, so hopefully Kid and I will have a good time and make the effort worthwhile.
I woke up pretty early (as is my standard) and wasted some time watching a couple of documentaries I took out of the library: Sound and Fury (about cochlear implants and the Deaf community) and Roger and Me by Michael Moore. I have to say I enjoyed the former far more than the latter, especially when Michael Moore was filming a woman killing and skinning a rabbit. Yuck!
I have such conflicting feelings about the cochlear implant debate. Even though it's been going on for years now, I feel like I'm still formulating my feelings about it. I work with an infant now who has auditory neuropathy and is a good candidate for a cochlear implant, and she will likely get one as soon as she turns 1. Her parents are definitely 100% pro-speaking-only and that makes me sad. If I had a deaf child who was a candidate for the implant I would probably end up getting it also, but I can't imagine raising a deaf child without giving him/her the opportunities and experiences of Deaf culture. It was weird to watch the movie, though, because it was filmed mostly on Long Island and that's where I learned to sign, so it was neat to see some of the locations I was familiar with.
I suppose I should finish getting chores done so I can head over at 1:00. I feel like I spend half my life picking up around here. Ugh.
I woke up pretty early (as is my standard) and wasted some time watching a couple of documentaries I took out of the library: Sound and Fury (about cochlear implants and the Deaf community) and Roger and Me by Michael Moore. I have to say I enjoyed the former far more than the latter, especially when Michael Moore was filming a woman killing and skinning a rabbit. Yuck!
I have such conflicting feelings about the cochlear implant debate. Even though it's been going on for years now, I feel like I'm still formulating my feelings about it. I work with an infant now who has auditory neuropathy and is a good candidate for a cochlear implant, and she will likely get one as soon as she turns 1. Her parents are definitely 100% pro-speaking-only and that makes me sad. If I had a deaf child who was a candidate for the implant I would probably end up getting it also, but I can't imagine raising a deaf child without giving him/her the opportunities and experiences of Deaf culture. It was weird to watch the movie, though, because it was filmed mostly on Long Island and that's where I learned to sign, so it was neat to see some of the locations I was familiar with.
I suppose I should finish getting chores done so I can head over at 1:00. I feel like I spend half my life picking up around here. Ugh.
