Horoscope

January 09, 2009
Aquarius (1/20-2/18)
Stop thinking so much about tomorrow and start living in the moment today! There are a lot of amazing opportunities all around you, but if you are too busy thinking all about what you want to do next, you are going to completely miss out on them! Timing is everything, so make sure you are living in the present along with everyone else. The past is done with, and the future will be coming soon enough. It's time to just worry about what you're doing today.

Is that not spot on with what I am TRYING to do now or what? I mean I know the future is still there, and I still need to work towards getting there (aka...school) but I can do that and live in the moment as well. For instance....

Today in my SEE sign class, we were talking about hearing loss, and hearing tests ect. When my professor talked about how we can go to the Lab and they have a hearing test center down the hall, we can go do it any time, its free. Plus we get extra credit!! So after class there were a few people going to go and check the place out, but we were all too scared to go alone... fearful that we were all going to be on the long terrible road towards deafness. So I was invited to go with I was like Hey why not?! So her a group of five of us go hike to the other building and walk on in. This lady walked out of her office and she stopped in her doorway, she had to do a double take, and her jaw just about hit the floor! It was such a funny reaction. She then asked if we were lost, we were like no I don't think so...

Apparently hardly anyone ever comes to get their hearing test, so to have a group of five people show up at once!! They were so not prepared for us. Turns out we need to make appointments, so there we a few other women who came out to help us all organize a good time to come in and do this. It takes about an hour and half!!! Its very thorough, they do one test where they test your hearing through your bones. Is that cool or what? They also have a camera that they put in your ear to look at your cochlea, which is what is unfixable when someone goes 100% deaf. (unless you qualify for a cochlear implant...) And with the camera there is a TV in the room that you sit in so you can watch everything going on and see what it looks like! Its amazing, I am so excited to experience this but at the same time terrified to know how deaf I really am.

Apparently my/our generation will be the youngest generation with the highest population for loss of hearing adults. Because we listen to our music too loud... and we put it directly in our ears (ear buds) which damages our cochlea even more! I am learning tons, and I am thinking I might be getting more and more interested in the medical aspect of the deaf world. Yay!!!