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Hello! I am not deaf (though I do have hearing loss in my left ear from being hit on that side) and I also don't know any deaf people. I have always wanted to learn ASL, think it may be helpful in my chosen career, and wound up here hoping to make some new friends and learn more about deaf...

I love animals and work in rescue, fostering, and volunteer time in shelters and am working to put an end to dog fighting. I like football, but when the NFL made the decision to put Michael Vick back into the game, that was the end of it for me. Sad. I do sort of miss Sunday and Monday night...

I think these ads are focusing on people who lose their hearing as they get older, not so much on those who have been deaf from birth or a young age. Isn't it harder for those who have had full hearing to deal with losing it? I am studying to be a nurse, and have seen many many times older...

My diet plan for new year: Get off lazy butt and walk dogs. Do yoga everyday. Oh yeah, and try not to eat whole box Captain Crunch in one sitting.

It possibly depends on your level of hearing. I would think hearing is one of the senses that is important for a police officer, since they have to be hyper-aware of their surroundings and what is going on around them. I am sure that a deaf person COULD make a great police officer, but...

On New Years Eve I watched 300 (about the battle of Thermopylae) and then La Femme Nikita. Today I watched a horror movie called Perkins 14 and then some of The Haunting (old black and white one from the 60's) All while studying, neuro diseases and ASL, and fooling around online....multi...

I have always found it so interesting and so hard to understand how cruel kids can be. From a young age on up to late high school I have witnessed such vicious and callous behavior from the more "popular" kids (male and female) towards the less popular, or even special education kids, though any...

I had not seen the honking pepsi commercial, as I am boycotting NFL for letting Michael Vick back into pro football, but thanks Jiro for posting it...so funny, love the caption for the dog (Bark, Bark). I am surprised such a good commercial is not aired regularly.

Now, to be serious, PatsCats, I have a 2 cats on meds right now. One loves food so it isn't hard to just crush the pill or disguise it with a piece of turkey or whatever. The other one, however, can detect a tiny fragment of a pill in 50 lbs of tuna fish. Can't get anything over on him, that's...

This thread reminded me of something I was sent by email a few months back: How to give a cat a pill: Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side...

I do believe in love at first sight, though it would be more apt to call it "chemistry" at first sight..to me, it isn't a "this must be fate, the one person I have finally found that I am meant to spend my entire life with" kind of thing. Too many people in the world for that to be practical...

Quote: "I don't think the government is planning on raiding your grocery/cabinets at home." Not yet, anyway.

I have been on both sides of the fence, lived in my car at one point - WITH a toddler. No one is saying that bad things don't happen to people and that they don't need or deserve help. It is when it becomes a way of life, and when people don't feel they are responsible for their own lives that...

I have an epileptic dog who has to take phenobarb. 2x a day. I just disguise the pill in a dab of butter - never met a dog who didn't like butter, he licks it right off my finger, no problem! Even if he knows a pill is in there, doesn't matter, all that matters is the butter. Cream cheese...

In the Wash DC area alone, long term recipients are over 50%. In my opinion, that is way too many. Most are single mothers, high school dropouts, who opted for early motherhood. In my state, they now tell welfare recip. that they no longer get increases in their checks when they have...

hmmm...slippery slopes? how 'bout this one: "welfare will help people out, give them a chance to get them back on their feet" We all know THAT one is not true in most cases. It has become a way of life, and if anything has made many completely helpless. The government started out with good...

In a perfect world, the government interfering to give those who can't or won't feed their kids properly a little help would be nice...however, where does it stop?? It is the CONTROL that makes me nervous. Today they want to control what the school cafeteria offers, tomorrow they bust down...

I think I, and most people, can handle their kid's diet, and I don't appreciate the government interfering in my life...but someone has the get the soda and junk food companies and their vending machines out of the schools. Whatever happened to just milk or juice?

Hi, I am a nursing student also, graduate this spring (God willing I pass) I am hoping ASL will be useful in nursing, but ok if it isn't. I just heard from another nurse that interpreters at the hospital she works at make $40-60 per hour. Not bad, if you can pick up a few hours here and...

I have been using two sites, one that is mentioned above with Bill Vicars (Lifeprint.com) and also WestwoodASL, taught with videos by a Deaf high school ASL teacher. Both sites have been very helpful so far. Westwoodasl.com has no vocabulary lists, he focuses more on grammar/syntax, and not so...