Incommunicado

[desperance]

This morning I have the world's sexiest voice, all scratch and hesitant vibrato - and it is being entirely wasted, as I have spoken to no one except the cats and Roger, and none of them care a whit.

Also, I had no e-mail when I woke this morning, which was why I had to speak to Roger. It did of course come back exactly as we spoke, but I had spent an hour beforehand wrestling with the problem of how to communicate with one's ISP when one has neither voice nor e-mail, for when I woke I had no voice at all. A hot toddy works wonders, tho' I fancy the cure is temporary if not illusory altogether.

Also also, I have lost the writing thing. I gaze at works in progress, and find I have no interest. In the eighteenth-century sense, I mean that: I am uninvested here, I have nothing to say.

Today seems to be a good day to bake bread. There is a walnut-and-honey granary loaf proving as we speak. If it proves well, it may prove to be the best of me today. Otherwise, I foresee books and TV. DVDs, perhaps. Might this be the time to embark on a comprehensive rerun of Buffy? I still don't know how it ends, y'know...

Comments

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

I would guess that the lack of interest is related to the being sick. When you don't feel good, your body wants to rest. It needs all its energy to heal, so it tells your brain to hush up. So listen to your body and rest.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

"I still don't know how it ends, y'know..."

There is an American having what is known colloquially as a "conniption."

Yes, you may use your sick day to watch Buffy.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have a history of never quite making it to the end of series that I like...

I also have a friend who accosted me long years ago, and demanded to know what a conniption fit was. So we went and found out.

And thank you, and I might well; but I'll never make it to the end in one day, nor yet one week. This is why I've been hesitating over series one, ep one: it's a major investment. Maybe now, when my resistance is low...?

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

I have EXACTLY the same physical and mental symptoms as you today.

And a DVD I needed for research has just now arrived in the post, too late to have filled these otherwise useless hours with productive (in)activity. Sigh.

I hope your bread is good.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go for it. THere's some good stuff in there. :)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Re voice.
Take advice from a longtime singer - when it's going rest is always the best answer. You shouldn't really push it or you'll make it worse. When it's gravelly try raising the tome to talk in a girly voice. It sounds stupid (even for a female), but it seems to wear on a different part of the throat architecture. In a real emergency a small shandy made of half-and-half port and ginger beer (Fentimans, of course) works wonders. I used to couple that with a Hills Bronchial Balsam Catarrh Pastilles stuck to a back tooth and it got me through a number of shows I should not have been trying to do. The throat sweet could be anything that sooths and warms as it trickles down. The gummy texture to stick it to a tooth was more important when singing. Choking on stage is so undignified.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Raise the tone, not tome, sorry.
:-)
Books on the brain.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Port... Can I have port without the ginger beer? (I have port - of course I have port! - and ginger beer would mean shopping. Which is outside, which is obviously bad... *nods*)

And thank you. I have been following your advice through force of circumstance (only the cats to talk to, and they're rotten conversationalists except at tea-time).

And I love the image of singing with the pastille stuck to a tooth, so thanks for that too...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

50/50 Port and Brandy is also excellent. On a number of levels.

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

Watch the Buffy! I treated myself to the entire boxset after my breakup a year ago and it was fantastic to watch the whole thing start-to-finish properly.

(I have no Buffy icons, this is so wrong...)