Oh wow, thank you so much for all this information! I love hearing about the job from people who have actually done it, haha. I’m so sorry to hear about the booths being so awful :( That’s a really good perspective for me to have about sight interpreting. I know that the job in general is exhausting as hell, but damn.

Oh my god, conferences seem so stressful. There’s so much pressure and it’s so formal... ugh. I want to do conference but not until muuuuuch later, haha. Sight translation seems like it would require the terp to really stop and absorb the written information to ensure an accurate translation. Did it feel awkward to…

Oh wow, Portuguese! That’s awesome! It seems like interpreting is always chaos, haha. The thing that my program focuses on that I wasn’t expecting is our emotional states and the baggage, for lack of a better work, we bring with us into assignments. I think that will be super challenging for me.

This week was the first week of my ASL/English interpreting program classes! It’s a two year program and I’m so excited to start this journey. It’s daunting and fascinating and I can’t get enough. Are there any other interpreters (ASL or other languages) that read Jez?

I’d show up for a third Tron. We can share a popcorn bucket.

Jesus, I’m so sorry that you went through that. I’m happy you’re here and hope you stick around, but take care of yourself. Hugs if you want them.

As a teenager I was piled into a huge van with a bunch of other “radicals” to go to a protest. The white woman who sat in front of me had dreads. I watched in disgusted fascination as a spider appeared like magic from one of the locks and scuttled around her hair for the entire hour-long ride. I was too grossed out to…

I found that exfoliating better/more often stopped my face from flaking and peeling in the winter. I had spent years trying to find the ~perfect moisturizer that stopped the awful flaking but once I tried using a facial brush on the reg (instead of using face scrubs or washcloths less frequently for fear of looking…

Yes, the spoken line didn’t make it in the final cut. But for any Deaf person watching, that caption was the only dialog that was accessible for them. Maybe they could tell that the caption didn’t match the spoken dialog if they are a very good lipreader, but many aren’t. That’s why this is a problem. This never…

Replying to push this up higher. Thanks for weighing in. It’s so sad to see our spaces deemed unimportant by people who could never understand why they mean so much to us.

I don’t obsess over it (and hadn’t heard of the Burke theory until a few months ago) but it has stuck with me because she was less than a month older than me. I remember the news coverage and it was the first time that I’d ever heard of a child being killed, like, ever. I didn’t know that kids could be murdered until…

MFM? Are you a fellow murderino??

I fucking hate this song and anyone who enjoys it.

Right there with you. So long as I don’t listen to the lyrics I enjoy Drake’s music, but his public persona is kinda ruined for me.

I actually loled at this. Thank you.

I mean, the entire attitude expressed in “Hotline Bling” was pretty bad. I don’t know him (obvs) but pretty much every song I’ve heard from him has at least one line that’s creepy, Nice Guy-y, or generally controlling towards women. Not into it.

I wish this worked to melt my heart. I still hate Drake.

His attitude and actions are almost cartoonish. If a novelist tried to write a character like this asshole, the editor would tell them to tone it down.

My spouse wears a burkini and it’s so comfortable. No need to reapply sunscreen, no restriction of movement, and less sand rash if a big wave knocks you ass-over-teakettle. It’s all good, except for how long it takes to dry!

This is a fucking nightmare thread. Lots of people showing their colors today.