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  • in a fair world having a sickness such as strep throat would grant you immunity from all other illnesses for at least a month. let me just tell you that it is most infuriating to still be on penicillin for the strep thro…

  • I've got strep, which means that ... I've got drugs, baby, yeah! i hate spending $100 on an office visit and throat culture. stupid faulty immune system. but it could have been worse: he did give me the drugs. plus so…

  • am going to doctor today: desperately hope that they will take pity on me, and give me antibiotic samples to start on before the culture results come back in. think will not tell them that have enlarged tonsils to begin …

  • find myself in the throes of some weird flu bug: last night I was miserable (chills, headache, the works) but thankfully this morning feel much better, with the painful and glaring exception of my throat, which is incred…

  • another thing they didn't teach you in choral methods: how to measure guys for tuxes. Thankfully I got pretty efficient at this last year (i.e. can take the measurements with very little actual touching and a minimum of …

  • my throat hurts. i am cranky. i want to go home.

  • the e-mail account I have used for the last 3 years is inexplicably inaccessible, so please send your addresses to tamarahedrick@gmail.com. Thanks! I hate Mondays that require you to hit the ground running, with no "eas…

  • have discovered key to successful choral singing: pick music with a bass line that: a).matches the drone of your actual basses (C to F, just in case you wanted to know), b). moves only in steps, and c). doubles the…

  • choir sounded better today, no doubt because I have now entered the mystical realm of bonsai ownership (thanks for that, Chris)

  • i wish i could look nice (but most unfortunately non-pitch-matching) choir students straight in the eyes and tell them not to sing. because, honestly, what am i supposed to do with the other 35 pitch matchers who are bor…

  • 11:27 a.m. Those of you who have seen my room before will appreciate the fact that I have 36 people enrolled in chorus this year. now that's a lotta students for a small space. But man, oh man, are we going to be able to…

  • Salty dogma Bono gives an explicit confession of being saved by Grace, not Karma | by Gene Edward Veith Is Bono, the lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2, a Christian? He says he is …

  • a nice, new computer with (gasp of disbelief) a flat-screen monitor is sitting at my desk in my classroom in which the air conditioning is working! Hurrah! Perhaps this is setting the tone for the whole year ... one can …

  • coming up on my one-year anniversary of living in the South .... I will survive ....

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