Tab Dump

With absolutely no method behind the madness. 

Deal with it, elves.  Mwah:

• L-word creators break their silence in this fascinating interview.  I'm in love with these brains.  Someday I'll join their club and... create something too.
• Obsessed with this blog by Sara on the way your brain sorts out its info.  I wonder if I'll ever be able to make sense of the world via ranges of dizziness, which is pretty much what I'm experiencing now.
• The fact that this link will take you to Oprah's webpage is NOT a sign of my capitulation, I promise.  Rather, it's a sign of how much I'm in love with Ayelet Waldman (aka Michael Chabon's writer wife).  Her so-called controversy: that she puts her husband at the center of her life, not her children.  I have a bone to pick with her about that, but hey, at least she shook things up, right?
• If you don't already subscribe to Sharon Pajka-West's feed, go, run, click NOW.  She always seems to have the in-info on new deaf books or deaf characters.  Now, this posting she has up on Lance Allred's memoir is kinda irritating me.  I've recently fallen out of love with the memoir in general, especially in the ways publishers market them.  Look!  Mormon!  And raised a polygamist!  Oh!  And he's *gasp* deaf!  And... wait for it... oh, no... he struggles with OCD.   In essence, the memoir marketing game seems to be about how many "oh no, the poor thing" factors you can slap on a book jacket.  Whatever happened to good, accessible, relatable writing!?

Comments

[Nabeel]

next time you see your audie, ask her if she can sort out exactly which electrodes are making you dizzy. If there's one or two that makes you dizzy, she can turn them off and you're good to go. I've heard of cases like that when I was doing my research.

[Rob]

Loved reading those two fascinating articles (had to hunt for 'em) for they offered additional glimpses of what your CI adaptation process might be like.

What I'd like to know is how in the world do you find whatever it is you read?!

[Rob]

@Nabeel - I wonder if you or someone out there should write a book titled: "Lessons Learned: How to effectively adapt to the CI?" Seems to me that many would benefit.

[Tiffany]

Yo, a book on what really happens to some of us as we adapt to the CI... not the Hallmark Card with swelling in the back ground crap .. the sucking a penny when someone talks stuff.. that would be good reading. I would contribute.

[Nabeel]

I've actually thought about writing a book about what it's like to be deaf, but I still haven't listened with the CI and I feel my story is unfinished :)

[shilpa]

went with a friend to her CI mapping appointment- my first time ever to witness it- interesting experience! i agree with Rob- somebody should write a book on his/her CI experience(s)... what to do & not, etc.