Thanks to a week-long sniveling bout with a cold and a morning full of singing and dancing children’s theatre followed by an afternoon full of voicing action-packed cartoon episodes yesterday, I am sadly without voice.

I didn’t mind wearing a yellow Post-It Note on my sweater all day today at the office that said “estoy afónico”, but I did mind missing out on the veritable avalanche of acting work that decided to shower down upon me as soon as Lady Luck and her twisted sense of humor discovered that I was unable to perform. Damn you Lady Luck! Why must you taunt me?!

Yes, in a period of just under 48 hours I have been forced to turn down the following work:

• two performances of The Lemon Thieves for a theatre full of kids
• dubbing one of the lead roles in a Spanish live action/animated feature film
• voicing and directing a series of six corporate videos
• providing voices for a Simpsons animated short at a Danone corporate event

Missing out on fun projects hurts, but missing out on the subsequent payday really hurts. Putting my degree in Mathematics to good use, I’ve added up all the money I won’t be making in the next two days – let’s just say it’s a lot closer 1000 than it is to 100. Now you know I really mean it when I say I can’t afford to lose my voice. Grrr…