Hello, how are y’all?  Feels like I just posted that show-cancellation notice yesterday, I guess I just slept through that whole time since then.  And whoo-hoo, I’m almost caught up with my backlogged All My Children’s!  Yep.  Productivity.  But yeah, I’ve been a good girl, I’ve stayed very very quiet since the weekend and only left the house a few times (very quietly).  I don’t want to test it out too much but the voice seems a bit better, squeakin’ out about four or five more notes that I had this weekend, so that’s good.  I’ve never gotten too scientific about it but I’m pretty sure my normal range is about 2 good octaves… I’m up to about 1-1/2 octaves now I think (squeaking at least), which isn’t bad considering I sounded like frickin’ Harvey Fierstein one week ago.

It’s not that easy being quiet.  I never realized until now how much talking to myself I actually do when I’m alone!  I keep catching myself saying shit when I’m puttering around the house… talking to myself or talking to my computer, or barking at the TV.  It’s even worse when I’m driving, I get pretty vocal!  Not quite to the point of yelling out the window, but I will definitely holler at the other drivers when they do stupid shit (and when I know they can’t hear me cursing at them).  I even talk in my fuckin’ sleep, how am I supposed to shut myself up then?

There were some phone interviews I was supposed to do this week for the next leg of the tour — Leslie (the press chick at Drag City) is helping me work around that by arranging to do them by e-mail instead.  Might as well, to be on the safe side.  I’m supposed to be working on that now, actually!

Eazy got me sucked into another stupid word game, called Word Sandwich.  He came over yesterday bearing a William Gibson documentary on DVD, so we had that going while I was on the iBook playing that confounded game, and he’s over on the Mini playing my favorite game WordPads.  Good times!  Eric is a fucking champion at all word games, i.e. he can trounce me at Literati.  So even though I’ve done really well on WordPads (~30,000) he’ll no doubt whip my ass on that if he spends much more time there.

Meh.  Kinda sucks that I’m sittin’ at home on my ass watching soap operas and playing stupid word games when I could be in Carrboro opening for the Joos tonight…!!  Oh well, what are ya gonna do.  Make more tea.