Crazy Bananas

Wow, so I am going to type out this whole post again because blogger decided to not post it and lost the whole thing. So here it goes again.

Boy does it stink here, literally and figuratively. Literally because the water main that goes to the dorms flooded and there was no running water to any of the dorms and it smelled like sewage. And figuratively because I am SWAMPED with work, and swamps tend not to smell too good. I have 170-210 pages I need to read for my Poli Sci test on Monday, and I’m stressing about that. But I can’t get motivated to just read and I keep doing anything else to not have to do it just yet(hence why I am writing the post!) I also have two paintings in the works and have a paper due in my Sociology class. But I have another week or so to write it. (I wrote my last paper on Cannibalism and I got an A-, but I got 4 points off because it wasn‘t really a ‘current‘ social issue. Even though with the food shortage, many researchers have projected that cannibalism may become a food source for impoverished countries.) Anyway, I’m not sure what I’m going to write my next one on.
But the big thing that I have going on is the play in sign language. In my class, 40% of our grade was determined by our final project. The original plan was that we were supposed to create and execute our own board game that related to deaf culture. No one in the class was too enthused so we decided to write and perform a play instead. It started out as just a cute little thing that we would have fun with, but it has become significantly larger than we had anticipated. The premise of the play is a young deaf boy and the struggles of growing up deaf. It is called “A day in the life” and it is performed in a deaf theatre ‘shadow’ style. This is where if you are speaking in the play, there is a person dressed the same ‘shadowing’ you and signing what you are saying, and vice-versa for signing and someone speaking the signs. This is popular in deaf culture because hearing and deaf people can enjoy the play without missing anything looking at the interpreter.
This is really cool especially because it is only a ASL level 3 class. We are donating the money to The Ohio School for the Deaf which puts together a camping trip every year for the deaf kids. Since it is relatively expensive they have a charity that allows people to donate for the kids to be able to go.But I am really starting to enjoy DSI more and more and I'm begining to be able to carry on conversations and not just recite sentences. It's really exciting.
So we are all pumped about the play, but no one was willing to take charge. So now it is up to me, Julie Decamp, and Sandy to do just about everything. I’m writing some of the script, Julie is making the flyers, and Sandy is getting the food and helping with the script as well. So we are working pretty hard and it’s tiresome. BUT to add a little more pressure, the board of the OSFTD is coming to watch! Crazy Bananas!
Another crazy thing that happened this week is that someone tried to steal my car! YES, SOMEONE ACTUALLY WANTED TO STEAL MY CAR! I was walking outside of my last class of that day at about 9 at night and while I am walking to my car, I notice my door is wide open. I know that I had locked it because I wanted to get something out of the car but I had already locked it and I was too lazy to unlock it again. But I left my passenger side door was unlocked, because the door handle is broken and it’s almost impossible to get in. But as you know my ignition is broken as well. My car will start, but won’t stay on unless you have something to hold the key in place. So unless you know how to get it to stay on it will turn off. So not only was the thief stupid enough to TRY and steal my piece of crap car, he was too stupid to figure out how to get the car to run to actually steal it. But I am incredibly lucky and am oddly enough grateful that my ignition is broken.Crazy Bananas!