Welcome to Ruminator's Ruminatings
Welcome to Ruminator's Ruminatings. This is my intro, forever anchored right here at the top. The intro text is just a click away via the "About me" cut tag below.
Entries appear underneath in reverse chronological order, the most recent at the top. Enjoy, and feel free to comment.
(Authored late 2007)
When I entered the world in 1965, computers were as big as rooms; and when I leave, I'll be taking a tiny one with me, seated like a jigsaw puzzle piece in the side of my skull. I entered during a time of rubella epidemics, but when I leave, this disease that shaped my life should nearly be eradicated. Disconnected and dependent I entered the world; but when I depart, I may well be wearing a smile: with digital electrodes residing within the cochlea that enrich my auditory consciousness, I'll have heard the world's vibrant pulse. I'll have connected with its people. I'll have lived fully.
At least, such is my hope. On February 29, 2008, a surgeon will install circuitry and electrodes inside my head. Ten days later, they flip a switch. Like a sixth sense suddenly powered up within me, this will be the first day of learning how to hear all over again. I await with much anticipation.
Welcome to Ruminator's Ruminatings. My name is Steve, I'm 42, and I live in the northern suburbs of Seattle. Furiously burning the candle at both ends, I work full time for an environmental company in communications while simultaneously going to classes and tackling mountains of homework in pursuit of a BA in English. School should culminate December 2008, and none too soon, as I've been carrying on this hectic schedule since spring of 2004. I am quite ready to begin having an actual life!
I grew up in Spokane and lived my entire life hard-of-hearing and dependent on hearing-aids. I first began Ruminator's Ruminatings in 2001, and most of it is pretty sporadic and offbeat. However, it seems to have taken on a new life since fall 2007, when I inexplicably lost much of my remaining hearing. Whatever caused this hearing loss also brought me constant tinnitus and a rather peculiar sensation of dizziness and vertigo that comes and goes.
I decided to record my hearing-loss experiences here so that the significance of some of the things I go through will never fade. I can't predict what the future may hold, but I hope this journal soon records auditory progress of ecstatic proportions. To be able to look back and really appreciate how far I've come and how so much better I'm doing -- that would be a very good thing.
Do leave a comment from time to time. Let me know your thoughts. I'm curious. It matters not whether the original blog post is recent or months old.
Note that tags, listed in the right column, only go back to January 2007.
Entries appear underneath in reverse chronological order, the most recent at the top. Enjoy, and feel free to comment.
(Authored late 2007)
When I entered the world in 1965, computers were as big as rooms; and when I leave, I'll be taking a tiny one with me, seated like a jigsaw puzzle piece in the side of my skull. I entered during a time of rubella epidemics, but when I leave, this disease that shaped my life should nearly be eradicated. Disconnected and dependent I entered the world; but when I depart, I may well be wearing a smile: with digital electrodes residing within the cochlea that enrich my auditory consciousness, I'll have heard the world's vibrant pulse. I'll have connected with its people. I'll have lived fully.
At least, such is my hope. On February 29, 2008, a surgeon will install circuitry and electrodes inside my head. Ten days later, they flip a switch. Like a sixth sense suddenly powered up within me, this will be the first day of learning how to hear all over again. I await with much anticipation.
Welcome to Ruminator's Ruminatings. My name is Steve, I'm 42, and I live in the northern suburbs of Seattle. Furiously burning the candle at both ends, I work full time for an environmental company in communications while simultaneously going to classes and tackling mountains of homework in pursuit of a BA in English. School should culminate December 2008, and none too soon, as I've been carrying on this hectic schedule since spring of 2004. I am quite ready to begin having an actual life!
I grew up in Spokane and lived my entire life hard-of-hearing and dependent on hearing-aids. I first began Ruminator's Ruminatings in 2001, and most of it is pretty sporadic and offbeat. However, it seems to have taken on a new life since fall 2007, when I inexplicably lost much of my remaining hearing. Whatever caused this hearing loss also brought me constant tinnitus and a rather peculiar sensation of dizziness and vertigo that comes and goes.
I decided to record my hearing-loss experiences here so that the significance of some of the things I go through will never fade. I can't predict what the future may hold, but I hope this journal soon records auditory progress of ecstatic proportions. To be able to look back and really appreciate how far I've come and how so much better I'm doing -- that would be a very good thing.
Do leave a comment from time to time. Let me know your thoughts. I'm curious. It matters not whether the original blog post is recent or months old.
Note that tags, listed in the right column, only go back to January 2007.