Day 1 - Part 1

This morning I awoke to the sound of the birds chirping outside my window and my roommate's cat, CJ meowing at me.  Nearly two hours later, I am wearing high-quality earplugs, unable to hear even the most common of sounds, such as this keyboard's keys being pressed in, the man at the information desk of the library talking to the girl standing in front of it, or the printer running just across the room from me. I walked to Van Pelt library unable to hear as well. This walk included an actually pleasantly quiet stroll past an otherwise obnoxiously loud construction site around 40th and Baltimore. Hmmm... Maybe I should invest in earplugs for future use. While I expected the actual physical change of not being able to hear to be jarring and generally difficult to get used to, it really hasn't been that odd. Perhaps that is because I've yet to be directly engaged with another person. I haven't needed to speak to anyone, and nobody (to the best of my knowledge) has tried to speak to me. Hopefully I will be able to update this with something a bit more interesting later today, but for right now, being "deaf" is pretty okay to me.