mime training.

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I just wanted to let all of my faithful readers know that I have not been eaten by seals.  Many of you know that at the beginning of July my beloved laptop gave up the ghost after a complete hard-drive failure, right in the middle of a blog post no less.  How rude!  Thankfully I had noticed it's odd behavior and had all my information backed up, not thankfully, because Apple now requires OS installations to be made from the App store it was impossible to load Mac onto the new hard-drive.  We could have paid an Apple authorized dealer to do the reinstall, but since this is a second hand machine anyway we determined that the cost simply wasn't worth it.

I am now running Linux and have mostly adapted, though sometimes I find myself frustrated because a keyboard shortcut doesn't react the way I expected it to or my editing programme randomly decides to freeze on me in the middle of a project.

The other reason I have been silent is because I have actually been literally silent.  Shortly after the laptop disaster I came down with a nasty cold that rendered me voiceless.  The cold itself let up after a week, but the moment I felt better I went back to my usual busy lifestyle which turned out to be a huge mistake.  After losing my voice for the third time I sought advise from the chemist and was instructed to rest my voice, even if I thought I was well enough to talk, for a full week.  So here I sit, quietly, trying to get other work done, but feeling largely useless.

Since I have to pantomime everything it has led to some rather amusing conversations with Seth.  Last night after he successfully guessed that I was going to check the letterbox, I excitedly tried to communicate something else to him.  I tried many different methods to no avail, he just could not figure it out.  Defeated, I wrote it down... "After this week we are going to be great at charades..."  Well, maybe not. 

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