A neon sign saying "shhhh"? ([personal profile] angelikitten) wrote,
@ 2009-09-24 09:20 pm UTC
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Current mood: tired
Entry tags:20 pounds of crazy in a 5 pound bag, can't hear you!, gender euphoria, hurts like hell, not a good idea, wish i never had to shop

  1. I can still transcribe things, but only if I concentrate really hard and take a really long time over it. It took me nearly 2 hours to do a 3 and a half minute passage this morning, and I was knackered afterwards. I'm not entirely sure that it's anywhere near accurate either, but there you go.
  2. It's still entirely possible for me to have panic-induced asthma attacks, and they still frigging hurt. I was trying to pack my shopping into my bag at the supermarket, when I noticed that a queue was forming behind me, so I kept apologizing. Both the cashier and the customer directly behind me started to tell me it was okay, and I started panicking because I couldn't get my card back in my purse, of all things. While the customer behind me was explaining that this happens to everyone, he touched my arm lightly to ground me, which made me realise just how badly I was panicking. By the time I got out of the supermarket, I pretty much had it under control, but the asthma attack decided it was going to happen anyway. Naturally my inhaler was in my bag - buried under a pile of shopping. This just about proves that cleverness is something that happens to other people.
  3. Even when panicking, I still have the mind of a 12 year old. In trying to explain that everything was okay, the customer behind me (while gesturing towards my overflowing bag) said that I had a big package. Yes, my mind went there. Even while panicking.
  4. It's likely that I have a thing for umbrellas. Every year, my grandad gets a "Presents For Men" magazine and a "Gifts For The Girls" magazine (by the same company) in the mail. While they are so unbelievably faily (hell, even the titles are faily when compared to each other), I'll still look through them. When looking through the men's one (the design of which includes a lot of dark blues), there's a good chance I'll really want about half the stuff in it, whereas in the girls' women's one (pink, obviously) there's a few things I kinda like and only one thing I really want. Last year, that thing was this light up umbrella (which would have been useless for me, because I'm rarely out when it would be dark enough to make use of it), and this year it's this heart shaped umbrella (which only comes in a colour that I hate with a passion, but if it'd been red it would have been perfect). How odd.

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[personal profile] aqrima
2009-09-25 12:11 am UTC (link)
hello :)

1. do you mean transcribe things as in, voice-posts you or someone else makes, or something like that? or something else? i was guessing you meant your own voice posts... incidentally, do you wear a hearing aid on the ear that you are deaf in? [I am not sure if hearing aids work for complete deafness, it seems like they usually don't, but the technology does keep advancing, so maybe..]

2. oh gods, i hate that sort of situation, and it has happened to me far too many times. i get awfully panicky like that too, to the extent that people have to calm me down (as the people at the store with you), but thankfully i don't have asthma. what a horrible confluence of bad things to happen! ok, that was a weirdly phrased sentence.. never mind..

3. on the other hand, i like that you're able to see the humour in situations like that too! heh. i'm awful for construing things as sexual innuendoes all the time. though i don't think i would in that case just because i'm not as familiar with the usage of "package" for penis (i know of it but it's not the most common term i associate..) but i definitely do do that with other words and such! heh.

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[personal profile] angelikitten
2009-09-25 06:58 am UTC (link)
Hey :)

1. Yeah, it was for someone else's voice post - a friend's computer broke last week and she's been keeping us updated via phone posting. No-one else seemed interested in transcribing it properly for her while she wasn't able to, so if I wanted to understand it properly I had to do it. So I did.

(And no, not yet. My doctor keeps stalling with regards to refering me to someone about it. I'm pretty sure she doesn't believe me.)

2. The checkout panic thing happens to me all the time, but my asthma doesn't play up all that often so that was a bit of a shock. Stupid mostly-dormant asthma.

3. I still don't know how my brain manages to do stuff like that. That said, I do talk to people about packing more than most people, so maybe that's why my brain caught onto it so quickly?

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