Scrabble Fever!

[reve_damour]

I just played so many games of Scrabble! I just played against a lovely deaf and blind woman who was cracking wise the whole time. She was the first person to hold a conversation during a game, and she was a riot

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[hellokaori]

That sounds like exactly the right way to spend a J-term!

GRE suxxx come to France where you don't need 'em :|

[eatenbykraken]

here's my idiotic question: how do you play scrabble with a deaf blind woman? were there braille tiles? also, do you know what's it called, that tactile finger-spelling language?

[reve_damour]

Well, it's online Scrabble, so this person could have easily been lying. Her story kept switching between being legally blind and having had one too many martinis.

I don't know about the tactile finger-spelling, but I remember Paige Reilly (which I remember, because I was in her sign language elective!) said that she had a deaf and blind family member, and they just fingerspelled the normal American Sign Language alphabet into her hands.

How are you doing these days, lovely?

[eatenbykraken]

I'm okay. Got a new job that starts in about five days, so mostly just jerking around waiting for that to start. What about you? What's this whole deaf-education-masters thing??

[reve_damour]

Neat! That's exciting. Where will you be working?

Smith has this FREE program to get a masters in deaf education!!! It's right here, only a year long, and I just need to take my gre and actually hand in all of my application materials. I've already taken a required course for the master, have a lot of good recs, and am hoping hard that this is in the bag. Everything's technically due April 1st, but I'm hoping if I get everything in early, they might tell me sooner than that. I need to contact whoever's in charge asap. =P