Sometimes, interpreting is this.

UPDATE: I have taken a hot shower and am now wearing dry clothes.

I’m also running my hearing aids through the hearing aid dryer for a couple cycles.

UPDATED UPDATE: *And* I have sent my invoice.
UPDATED UPDATE TO MY UPDATE: I have also consumed pizza. Rest will now commence.

@adhdeanasl Bravo, sir, well done.

Am amused at the concept of a hearing aid dryer though!

@greem They’re necessary, particularly here in the muggy South. Hearing aids rely on very sensitive electronics.
@adhdeanasl that looks like the kind of soaked through that a bourbon would help
@joninalbany I *do* have the day off tomorrow…
@adhdeanasl No one offered to stand with you holding an umbrella? 😬
@a My team did for a bit, but it was ineffective, as she is much shorter than I.
@adhdeanasl

Fix one onto a tripod stand?

@a

@adhdeanasl

:o neither rain nor snow nor dark of night.

@adhdeanasl

Gotta say, that’s super badass, D.

@adhdeanasl ADHeroDeanASL
@stx Not at all. More like stubborn.
@adhdeanasl Sometimes that's all it takes.
@adhdeanasl Your "shall not be deterred" attitude is commendable.
@adhdeanasl alpha energy
@renardboy Please do not use that term to me; it has too many negative connotations

@adhdeanasl Ok, badass energy works for you? You look cool signing in that downpour.

(i should mention just to clarify that I was using the term ironically)

@adhdeanasl

Extremely accurate AltText.

@adhdeanasl First off, you look spiffy and handsome! Second, was there no one available, perhaps a tall person, to hold an umbrella over your head? High enough that people could still see all of your signing?
@adhdeanasl They couldn't get someone to hold an umbrella for you?! :(

@mayintoronto

Whoever was filming had one!

@adhdeanasl

@davep
@mayintoronto
@adhdeanasl

I wondered about that too, like can you give the poor guy some cover.

That said he looks super cool working it in the rain!

@davep My team. I had her stay under it. No reason for us both to be soaked. @mayintoronto

@adhdeanasl @mayintoronto

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar 🫡

@adhdeanasl look at you, being a total badass.
@adhdeanasl look at you being the consummate professional!

@LibertyForward1 @adhdeanasl

That is Good. Shit. I'm proud to know you, man

@adhdeanasl
Extremely metal interpretering 🤘
@adhdeanasl
Top notch professionalism & why is watch this making me feel cold.
Hope hot drinks were offered soon after?
@adhdeanasl Hope the weather doesn’t take a turn for the worse on you!
@adhdeanasl Joking aside, is that safe? Feels as if lighting strikes could be an issue. ⚡️🫪
@adhdeanasl what a force of nature right there, working in the rain. 🤌
@adhdeanasl I love this so much. I love that you love it this much.
@adhdeanasl 💜 that’s a hero right there
@adhdeanasl they couldn't spare an umbrella to cover you?
@adhdeanasl
😳. But that suit said DRY clean only!

@adhdeanasl holy fuck you are a bad ass!

I know you're going to down play that, but standing in the pouring rain to make sure that others watching can participate and be included in something that they would otherwise be unable to is wonderful.

I hope you got to warm up afterwards.

@adhdeanasl
Hooray for providing an interpreter! 🎉

Boo for not providing an umbrella for the interpreter! 👎🏻

You look like a badass! 💪🏻🫶🏻

@adhdeanasl You would definitely win a wet suit coat contest.
@adhdeanasl That man is the MVP.
@adhdeanasl The hero we need. Good work Dean.

@adhdeanasl

Oof! I hope you had a change of clothes and a hot drink waiting when you'd done!!

@adhdeanasl Rockstar man, rockstar!🤘
@adhdeanasl I don't know a word of ASL, but I could watch interpreters signing to music all day. It's like 4-dimensional poetry.

@adhdeanasl

One of my standout memories from early in the pandemic was this fellow who signed *every *single health update and government announcement. Definitely one of my personal heroes of the pandemic.

@DavidM_yeg I was happy to see that governments were using interpreters for those announcements, and that they actually started using Deaf interpreters teamed with hearing ones - provided even more access for Deaf people who maybe have less linguistic access than the average person.