Maybe I should just stop talking. Maybe THAT will help.
As you may recall, it was one of those weekends, a three day span spent shooting TV, doing radio, announcing a thousand or so names at a ski race, and taking care of a bunch of other stuff, I now find myself with a slightly scratchy & sore throat, probably thanks to vocal chords that have been pushed a little too close to their limits of tolerance.
Oh, goody.
Thankfully, I haven't actually lost my voice. At the moment you can just tell that it sounds a little...strange. Not that it's strange in a bad way; you can just tell that it's not normal. That makes me think of two things. The first is what athletic trainers tell you—if a muscle hurts or feels strained when you're working it, you might wanna stop whatever it is you're doing it lest you risk injuring it further. And the second?
I'm not really in the right career field to stop talking for a day or two to let my voice rest.
It's funny; I'm probably in one of the few jobs where it's worse to lose your voice than it would be to lose your mind. I mean, think about it—without a voice in radio, you're nothing. You're dead air. You're like a mime with no one to annoy. But if you lose your mind; well, that's a different matter. You can still speak. What you say may no make much sense, and you might not be on the air very long (especially if your boss is listening), but you could still be on the air.
Unlike, say, someone without a voice.
Like I said, though, I'm lucky in that regard. I can still speak. It's just a little uncomfortable when I do it, especially when I speak with any kind of volume. So if I in any way sound weird on the air today (and I don't think that I will), you now have the reason why.
I just really need to stop talking for a day or two. But with radio and more TV and that History Center show at Kaufman Thursday night?
That won't be happening any time soon.
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