A Herd of Goats and Other interpreting Snippets
Snippets from interpreting:
Goats: I’m interpreting along. It’s in-depth analysis type of stuff in a high level setting. This requires from me intense concentration to first capture the meaning in English and then turn it into a comprehensible form of ASL.
Suddenly they start talking about a herd of goats. The sign for goats, in my opinion, is quite funny anyway. I’m mid-sign interpreting ‘goat’ when I double-check myself. Did he really say ‘goats’?? Not quite what I was expecting from the analyzer. The deaf person raises the eyebrows a bit at the pause adding some comic relief and I lose it; giggling internally, trying to keep a straight face.
For Loops: The topic is computer software engineering. Get done with the job. The deaf person approaches me. “What is your background?” Didn’t think I knew anything about computer software, eh? Bring that girl back–(got my business card). She knows what a ‘For Loop’ is. Imagine interpreting if you didn’t know what that meant. What are you hearing?? ’4 loops’? A name: ‘Forlups’? ‘For a loop’? You get the idea.
East Coast: They use the sign ‘name’ for the word ‘mention’. That’s just weird. 
East side. West side.
Cute picture
Its on our wedding video 
Yes it is.
It’s one of the few pictures where someone caught me off the job signing.