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November 15, 2006
Class on Thurs 11/16
As many of you probably remember, I wasn't feeling too hot on Tuesday. By the end of section 5 on Tuesday, my voice was going downhill fast, and it has continued to deteriorate since then. What you don't know is that I had a 6-month period of 'catastrophic voice loss' last year - my winter '05 class described me as sounding like "a teenaged Darth Vader crossed with a chipmunk." I'm sounding nearly as terrible now as I did then. As a result, I'm going have to go on voice rest (i.e., shut up as much as humanly possible) for a few days. Thursday in class I will likely have my laptop connected to the projector, and I'll probably give some instructions and answer some questions by typing responses onto the screen. I will also have a small microphone and speaker setup to allow me to speak at least a bit.
The good news of this is that you don't need to bring a computer for Thursday's presentations; just email me (or yourself) the ppt or bring it on a USB drive or CD.
I will also probably have my laptop out at office hours today to answer some questions via writing. I will then email you the document with my comments as a bit of compensation for having to have a bizarrely half-written, half-spoken conversation with me. But PLEASE do not avoid office hours because of this. I've done this before and know that it won't hurt me - I spent 6 months of last year doing this, actually. :-) It's a little awkward but there's no reason for you to avoid coming.
Posted by lpowner at November 15, 2006 10:07 AM