Don't worry. I'm fine. It wasn't serious. Just that somebody bumped into me from behind when I stopped at a yellow light this morning on my way to work, and we both pulled over and exchanged information and I was really late for work but at least no injuries.

It just was that it was on top of everything else. I teach music - I need to be able to sing and be cheerful, both - and it's been really hard to sing the last couple of weeks. The doctor got me on antibiotics yesterday for sinusitis and inflammed throat and vocal chords (one would assume the vocal chords were red, too), and put me on allergy meds, and I also had my flu shot, so I was achey and tired from that this morning too. But I got in the car after a couple cups of coffee and some Tylenol with the attitude that it's my job and it was too late to get a substitute teacher anyway.

So, that's my day, and I'm cranky. Sometimes being a singer is difficult, eh? When you sing and you sing and you sing and you sing, and you think that that's why you can't sing well anymore, that you've just overdone it, and you deny the possibility that the cold you were fighting 2 1/2 weeks ago could possibly be lingering on after all this time, and then you find out you really actually ARE sick! You have an actual Reason to have that gravelly voice and not want to get out of bed in the morning.   I think singing is such a fun job when you're on top of it, and so miserable when you're feeling gutterbound. And I think it's so difficult for a singer to judge one's voice and vocal health.

So, singers, how is YOUR day going today?

~b.w.