[orthodoc]

Moving forward is good. Dropping stress/weight is great. FTW, foot.

I'm happy to have finished a week in Baltimore. I haven't posted in the Baltimore thread because everything I began to say seemed underwhelming. It was a significant week, however.

And I'm happy to have finished a week of networking and chatting at a national conference in spite of my hearing impairment. I'm not deaf enough to use signing but impaired enough to make every conversation a misery. I do lip-read as well as I can, but it's not just decibels. My hearing aids are ridiculously inefficient.

So, it's nice not to be embarrassing myself on a moment-to-moment basis. What I really need is a nice academic job where I don't have to hear people much. I don't know that the ADA will provide for me in my current job.