wincing swallowing

the totally awesome thing about losing your voice is going to work while it's happening to you. especially if you work the kind of job where you're actually getting paid (or not, in this case) to talk. well, say magic words, really. that's all attorneys do, honestly. and it's even better if you're supposed to say the magic words on a record of some type, because then you're actually fucked and you have to make sure you're looking the magistrate dead in the eyes, like you are actually hypnotizing her, which maybe you actually are? you hope so, and you have to say "the state moves the [em] court to......the state [ahem] moves [uh-heh-em] the court to.......the STATE [ahem] moves the [uh-HEH-EM]" like a million times before you can get out "find the defendant" in any intelligible language known to the human race, and even then you're just moving your lips like please, please don't make me say that again.

anyway, so i've lost a good part of my voice, and my throat feels like somebody threw a tiki torch down there and back out again, and i had to go to work this morning with the coughing and the tea and the holding it (take tea and pee, as my nanny used to say, and girl was not kidding), and the doctor and the medicine and now we end our program with the sleeping in the middle of the day.

some advice: do not travel like a million times in a year, especially if that year is your last year of law school. dude. come on.