November 13, 2024

Returned to ASC rehearsal last night, successfully, without coughing fits, or with fewer coughing fits than those gathered around me. Neither was I in particularly bad voice. Energy drained. Coughing renewed later in the evening, including the strangle-cough, where the impulse to cough is immediate, irresistible, not-prepared-for, multiple, hitting before a breath can be taken, so the longer you cough, the more breath you lose while taking none in, until you’re emptied of air and still trying to cough. You say to yourself, “This is how I go.” It may be. Hasn’t been yet. Smashed the morning to pieces getting a Kirkus sales crusade going for Wyona. Also trying to use Facebook pages which cannot be used, cannot be saved, and, apparently, cannot be deleted. Still may plant bloodroot if I walk out the door and can stand the sudden cold.