Ruth detected that I “sound better” even via pager this morning. 🙂 You know – I got that paper done and submitted, just got plane tickets to DC for both upcoming trips – NAMI/Breakout and Conference of Interpreter Trainers.
My roomies have arrived, are settling in, and all is “go” for us to hang tonight and start sorting out … Read more...
Category: Series
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CL4 paper and RID proposal
Well. I actually finished the paper to submit to the proceedings for Critical Link 4, held in Stockholm last spring, a whole day EARLY! Gee! Somehow, the universe smiled on me with the blessing of time. Time-wise, I’d spent 3-4 half days on it earlier this summer, and three 5-6 hour days on it as the deadline neared. Scheduling the … Read more...
juggling!
The Alaska folk posted some pics and workshop descriptions from the conference last spring.
Meanwhile, I worked with someone recently who busted my chops for voicing and “walking all over” a hearing person who was already speaking. Actually, my team was very kind and indirect with the feedback (I could do better in this regard!), but I caught myself at … Read more...
life studies
Interesting stuff at The International Network for Life Studies. The author (?), Morioka Masahiro, is interested in consciousness, communication, disability, death (and dying process?), philosophy, desire, bioethics, feminism, religion…hmmm!
I like that he thinks beyond the surface of things, as evidenced in this debate about succession within the Japanese Imperial Family. This is what I’m trying to do … Read more...
upcoming movie
The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, will be filmed on location at the United Nations (article from NYTimes posted in the extended entry). Might be a fine opportunity for some media analysis of representations of interpreters. Useful for training purposes, I bet.
And I never watched the West Wing, but James and Vangie recently started plowing through all … Read more...
first convention bloggers
some people really are earning some income from blogs! I doubt I’ve got quite the public persona – too dry and “objective” 🙂 – to make the cut, but what I have been trying to do is provide access to live events (like the mentoring project). This is a key variation on what most bloggers do, as described by … Read more...
research & funding
Came across a beauty of a clip getting ready for the next round of research! Improves my mood considerably on that front, especially since the most recent person to contact me about a possible presentation vanished from cyberspace. 🙁 I suck at this online negotiation thing. I think I’m “worth” a certain (considerable) amount because a) no one else is … Read more...
some gigs are just fun!
What a blast! I was the solo interpreter at a mixed (deaf/hearing) community event and spent most of the time with three ASL-users and one non-signing deaf person, simultaneously encouraging and interpreting their interaction. It’d get tricky when I had to also interpret for hearing people – going back and forth among spoken English, ASL, and mouthed English for lipreading. … Read more...
movement
I articulated something today that has been on my mind a lot but I hadn’t quite put into words. I’ve been doing this thing where, while I’m interpreting, I mirror the instructor’s movement in the class – sit when she sits, stand when she stands – and I think it is actually helping the flow of the interaction.
Here’s my … Read more...
Berdahl (again!)
“[Informant] Thomas Speigal[‘s] warning about judging the past from the perspective of the present, about the simultaneous solidification of boundaries and blurring of distinctions between victims and perpetrators” (p. 217).
This quote continues her analysis of the commemoration parade, in a chapter she calls “Dis-membered Border”. This seems (to me, smile) to parallel my relational struggle – we are contesting … Read more...