If anything could go wrong yesterday, it did go wrong.

Okay, so I didn't get any sleep. I stayed up last night and read this forum on myspace about cochlear implants. It was pretty interesting and both sides seemed to be really passionate about it. It was pretty cutthroat, too. I learned a lot about them, and I've come to the conclusion that if I ever have a Deaf child, I wouldn't want them to get a cochlear implant. There's too much risk involved. I don't think I like the thought of brain surgery on a kid that might be able to make the kid hear little bit better. Besides I'm learning a lot of sign language, and I'll definitely immerse the kid in Deaf culture. Anyway, toward the end of the forum both sides agreed that the medical community wasn't doing enough to inform parents about the risks and side effects of the cochlear implant, and that parents have other options with sign language and the Deaf community.

Tricia wanted me to write in my blog about her. I never got around to it. Of course, she only gave me about five days, and I was busy almost all day every day. It doesn't matter, though. She just broke up with me. She says she wants to date casually, but I doubt she really does. I'm really hurt right now. I wish she would give me another chance. Am I really such a lousy boyfriend? I guess so. I can never get a relationship to last more than a week, and I don't know why. I can't sleep. It's three in the morning. Tricia's mad at me that I changed my relationship status back to single so quickly. What did she want me to do? Not change it back? I don't have a clue what this girl wants from me. I've tried my best to get her to like me, but she's always pushing me away, and she doesn't want to work through any of our problems which are mostly just breakdowns in communication and can be easily resolved. I'm sorry if I hurt her. I hate myself now. I'm going to try to sleep again.

The Celebration of Sign was awesome. For those of you that I invited and didn't come, you missed out on something amazing. The only thing I didn't like about it was the lighting. It was too distracting, and I couldn't see what they were signing half the time. The worst part was when they shined two of the moving lights out into the audience. Pointing a light into the face of a Deaf person while they are watching someone sign is not good. Whoever the designer for this was, knew nothing about lighting for the Deaf.
On a completely different note, I'm doing the lighting for a play at Murfreesboro Little Theatre called the Bad Seed. You better come this time. It's going to be good. It opens on the seventh. I'll post the dates and times of the performances later.

photo from parcanman


I'm going to the 7th Annual Celebration of Sign Language today. I'm really excited about it. I don't exactly know what's going to happen over there, but whatever. I love ASL. The celebration is today at 7:00 at TPAC. I just created a group for Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people that are interested in ASL and Deaf culture.
I'm really hungry. I think I might go get something to eat. My options are peanutbetter, potatoes and rice. I need to go to Kroger. I love the culinary arts. If any of my friends on here want to get a great homecooked meal, let me know. I hope you like chicken. Anyway, right now, I think I'm going for the peanutbutter.

For all you Star Wars fans out there, I found this website that you've got to see:
Star Wars Pants

photo from parcanman

It occurs to me that I have the screen name parcanman and most of you don't even know what a parcan is. PAR stands for Parabolic Aluminized Reflector. The reflector is attached to a lamp which is mounted inside a can, thus the term "parcan." There are two parcans in the above photo, in front of the striplights. If you can't figure out what a striplight is, I'm sorry. It should be obvious.

I finally got to take a good look at the Murfreesboro Little theatre's lighting system. They've got 15 Source 4 Juniors! Unfortunately, I'm only going to be able to use two. :( I'm really looking forward to doing this play called the Bad Seed. The lighting system needs a lot of work, though. I think I got electrocuted on one of the little fresnels. It's going to take a lot of work.

photo from parcanman

I finally got some new pictures of myself. Cheryl, the pastor's wife at my church, made powerpoints of a lot of the pictures that were taken at camp. I pulled some pics off of it. I miss Camp Summer Sign. Of course I was almost always at the point of exhaustion, but I miss all the missionaries and the kids. I need to write them. I think I might talk to Jessie and Leighanna about teaching me to sign another song, and seeing if they want to sign it one Sunday. Jessie and Leighanna were missionaries this summer, and they liked so much they just decided to stay for a few more months. Anyway, here's some of my favorite websites:
deafworldministries.com/deafpoetry.html
brentwooddeaf.org
aslquest.com

Well, I'm bored. In about 15 minutes, I'll be watching the Simpsons. After that, I'm going to work on a play. I've been waiting for a chance to work on for the past few weeks, but for some reason they haven't given me an opportunity. I don't even know what kind of lights they have or even what the console looks like. I'm sure I'll get it done though. I'm used to staying up until 3:00 in the morning working on lights the day before a show. That's really annoying, though.

I think I really need to get a new picture of myself.

Stardate 09.20.05
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Our five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization, and to boldly go where no man has gone before...
I just felt like doing that. It seemed appropriate for my first blog. I used to love Star Trek... until Voyager came around. I don't like Captain Janeway. Tom Paris and the Doctor were the only cool guys on that show. Tom should have been the Captain.
I've had a bad day. I'm confused, and I've got a lot of work to do tomorrow. Fortunately, tomorrow is a Wednesday, so I will only have on class tomorrow. I need sleep.