laryngitis

This is going to scare the heck out of Tzuchien Tho, who arranged my lecture in Maastricht, but I’m only talking about as well as The Godfather today. Don’t worry, Tzu, it’ll be fine. A friend is watching over me and ensuring that all the right potions, vitamins, juices, etc. are consumed before the trip.

I’ve never had to give a lecture without a voice, but did pass the oral component of my PNdS exam (that’s the one that enables you to be a student in a German university, I think superseded by a new exam now) with laryngitis, which was one of the funniest things ever. I can actually whisper good German, perhaps one of the few who has ever tried to pass the test that way.