Why, why, why do I get a cold in the few days before auditons? Hockaday is being idiotic and holding auditions for absolutely everything during the first week of school. Now I get to try out for "Red White and Swing" (the Winter musical) and "Dido and Aeneas" with no high notes and a garbled belt. Kill me now. Thank god I have another week (or possibly longer) to recover my voice for the auditions for Jesuit's fall play. To be announced the first week in Sept.

Alas, woe is me.

I have chosen to blame this on... ::spins around blindfolded:: my sister and her friend RJ (who looks remarkably like Jimmy Bond). A few nights ago, they took me to a comedy club, where cigarette smoke hung in the air like a London pea-soup fog. It was barely tolerable when I was there (I spent about an hour in the shower afterwards, re-shampooing my hair and scrubbing my skin raw to get rid of the smell), and I woke up the next morning with the sniffles. I assumed it was just allergies. Now it's getting worse. Grr.