A not quite silent voice

Soooo I saw a speech pathologist yesterday, and it turns out that I do in fact have an abnormally quiet voice :x I am also slightly below normal in my ability to hold a sound, and she was also concerned about my random sore throats. So I prooooobably should have tried speech therapy several years ago when I was considering it in grad school (although I did at least learn to get through presentations without killing my throat, so learning some projection skills instead wasn't totally useless). Or, you know, earlier. Ah well, better now than never. Need to get a consult with an ENT before we schedule anything else - I found a place today and made an appointment, though it won't be for a bit - but until then, she gave me a few exercises. Z is happy that I am learning to match pitches, haha.

Been reading some Japanese folktales this week - good for practicing a different variety of words than contemporary stuff.

I've also been feeling in a bit more of a writing mode recently. I'm hoping I can both polish up my gift for candyheartsex this weekend and get a treat done.