Back in May I had a meeting with the regional head at Services for the Blind about my case. She overrode my case manager’s earlier decision not to sponsor graduate-level study, and added an amendment to my plan stating that my eventual career is “attorney,” meaning that I was approved for assistance with tuition totaling just over 10k, 1k for ( Read more... )

I went to Campbell's accepted students day last Saturday and I've decided to go there next year. Duke has the best bar passage scores in NC, but Campbell is number two, and since I can't afford Duke whatsoever I'm going to stick with Campbell. Their tuition is 36k a year. They offered me a 17k scholarship but that means I would have to come up ( Read more... )

I’m doing this talk about blindness and access to education as part of my university’s Social Justice Week, and if no one goes to this talk I will cry some very sad tears. To attract people I have done the following ( Read more... )

Equipment for the blind is so damn expensive. I just finished my first through-the-mail braille course and I was looking into getting a braille typewriter to practice/make labels for my spices and teas but they cost around $1,000. Which is insane, because the machine only has seven keys. I may just buy a slate and stylus online but then I would ( Read more... )

PICTURES
This is a picture that my sister took of me and Ben while we were out on Thursday. Obviously it was a candid shot.

( me and Ben )

I have a tumblr. It seems like a pretty vision-heavy website but I'll probably post a lot of disability-related things and less fandom stuff, but if you're interested I'd love if you guys added me. If you want to learn more about blindness or become more aware of ableism or other disability-related topics, then come check it out : )

The Good: The parts for my laptop came in today! I took them to tech support so hopefully I'll get a call sometime tomorrow letting me know that everything is fixed. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty relieved.

The Bad: I had my final eye appointment on Monday where I finished the last of my tests and got all my paperwork filled out for LSAT and ( Read more... )

If I don't get into some kind of post-graduate education I think I might scream. Applying for testing accommodations for the LSAT and the GRE is a nightmare of forms, doctor's appointments, rules, etc. Of course both testing organizations do things completely differently, and they need different forms filled out by my doctor (which has required ( Read more... )

Tomorrow melusinahp is posting the submissions for her One Prompt, Many Writers challenge. The prompt was:

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
The rules were: 500 words or fewer, and HP characters or pairings, any rating, any content, slash, het ( Read more... )