{"id":386,"date":"2005-10-18T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=421"},"modified":"2005-10-18T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T06:00:00","slug":"coot-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"coot, cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OH, FOR MY VOICE BACK!<\/p>\n<p \/>I don&#8217;t have much news because I&#8217;m still sick. You can&#8217;t do things when you&#8217;re sick, and you <i>really<\/i> can&#8217;t do things when you can&#8217;t talk. I mean, what&#8217;s the point of even going out? Other than your friends laughing at you, of course.<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ve been voice-free for 4 days now. It&#8217;s making me a little nervous, but I figure as long as I still have the cold or bird flu or tuberculosis or whatever, it&#8217;s to be expected. Yesterday I got worse, but today seems a little bit better. I made it through a whole work day!<\/p>\n<p \/>Note: Do <i>not<\/i> tell your mother you&#8217;re coughing up big green chunks, even if you are. It makes her panic and try to bring you to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p \/>Also, I noticed that this doesn&#8217;t stop me from singing in the car. I lip-synch. Seriously, I can&#8217;t just stop.<\/p>\n<p \/>I did manage to go to Arabic Monday night. The class is dwindling! My bff is gone, and so are Ike and the two old guys. It&#8217;s now me, Wolf, pageant-girl, pageant-girl&#8217;s mother (the Perkins waitress who&#8217;s married to the Sudanese diplomat), and the two really weird girls in the back. Class was easy because I didn&#8217;t have to talk. At one point, we were supposed to give each other directions. Wolf turned and looked at me wistfully; I shrugged, not the least bit sad to avoid that particular interaction.<\/p>\n<p \/>Megan emailed and saved the day again (she was also the voice of authority on undead Sea Monkeys): the black ducks at Lake Calhoun are not ducks at all. They&#8217;re <a href='http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/programs\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/American_Coot_dtl.html' target='peeppeep'>coots<\/a>! I&#8217;m glad you folks are paying attention. I&#8217;ve gotten some supernice emails about the 3day progress as well, so thanks.<\/p>\n<p \/>I spent a lot of yesterday not at work, rebuilding my iPod. I don&#8217;t have a server anymore, so I figured out how to pull all the music off it and reorganized. I got rid of about half of it, and then made sure the tags were all orderly on the rest. I&#8217;m kind of a freak about these things, obviously. It took a hell of a long time. Now I&#8217;m sniffling to <i>Change (In the House of Flies)<\/i> again. I wish I knew what it was about that song I love so much it makes me cry every single time I hear it.<\/p>\n<p \/>OK, that&#8217;s today&#8217;s unexcitingness. I&#8217;m &#8217;bout to float away on this tea I discovered at Gigi&#8217;s. I go in there and point at the sign and they hook me up; I&#8217;m convinced it will give me back my voice one of these days. And then, my friends, I&#8217;m going to call every single one of you and yell at the top of my lungs. It&#8217;s my kinda celebration*.<\/p>\n<p \/>Night, tight, bedbugs and such.<br \/>Jenni<\/p>\n<p \/>*Email me your phone number if I don&#8217;t already have it. Otherwise this celebration will fail, and nobody likes a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OH, FOR MY VOICE BACK! I don&#8217;t have much news because I&#8217;m still sick. You can&#8217;t do things when you&#8217;re sick, and you really can&#8217;t do things when you can&#8217;t talk. I mean, what&#8217;s the point of even going out? Other than your friends laughing at you, of course. 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