Trouble with voice recordings

I am having trouble with my voice doing recorded lectures. My voice is so hoarse I can barely do this and I keep making mistakes and have to do it over again. I’m only recording one slide at a time also. So that should make it easier. But some of these are long lectures, one which had over 100 slides and the current one has about 35.

I tried doing some of my singing exercises that I used to do in the past when I had problems lecturing in person after a botched endoscopy which damaged my vocal cords. I have had constant nasal drip for years that comes down into the back of my throat.

I just had a terrible coughing fit while I was drinking tea and eating. Not doing any recordings. I had to take a cough drop. I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t take the anti-histamines, I tried the steroid inhaler in my nose just to see if it would help but I think maybe it made it worse, I’m not sure.

I wonder what else to do here. I’ve done the ginger tea, I can’t take honey, sips of water, trying to rest in between. I really don’t want to have to go to the ENT and almost every time I have gone to them they were useless, except for telling me to do singing lessons a long time ago.

Someone said the worst thing you can do is clear your throat if you’re singing, the odd thing is I was able to sing pretty well right after the coughing fit and having the cough drop and drinking a little more tea. But my speaking voice still sounds hoarse and awful. It’s not like laryngitis, it just sounds gravelly and hoarse and I feel strain. I am getting so stressed out about how bad it sounds each time I have to record a slide.

Very Disturbing- NYC Mayor Adams now says private biz no longer has to require covid vaccination

I found this out from an email from the Art Student's League stating due to this they will no longer require students and I suppose staff as well, to be vaccinated for covid. This is very disturbing. I am not surprised but really what a way to say we don't gad anymore. It is more evidence of the insanity of the US. They said if your professor requires you wear a mask and that is an issue to please consider taking another class! What a way to say we don't care about our faculty or anyone else including ourselves except for the bottom line.

I am also disturbed that in my college people are being allowed to attend classes now who have not met the other vaccination requirements. That never happened in the past. I am not talking about covid here, that vaccination as far as I know is still mandatory, to be able to attend at all, but how long will that last for now with the way things are going.. I am talking about measles, mumps, meningitis etc. In the past I was told each semester to not let any students on this list attend class. None were ever still in attendance. Now they are being allowed to attend while the college is negotiating getting them to comply. Supposedly they will be booted out if they don't. But they are currently attending and possibly endangering everyone.

Gas prices last night: someone wrote Biden did that on the pump 😀

So I got some gas in the way home. Filled half a tank, I barely drive at all anymore and I never drove that much in recent years, just locally and to work mostly. Regular is down to 3.39 from last time. While I’m getting the gas I look at the part where it says regular and I noticed someone wrote in permanent marker Biden did this, lol. At first I thought it was a criticism of Biden but then I realized it was the opposite. I took a photograph of it on my phone but I can’t post it here unfortunately.

Covid numbers up a lot already at my campus

I was a little worried to see the numbers of people who tested positive and after only one week of classes has jumped from a steady rate of about 3 to 4 people each week or two to 14 already. I also received notice from a student that they had missed class because of covid exposure at their job. I told them to not come to class until you know your test result. I just got my 5th shot the last week the Moderna bivalent but I’m not yet fully immune for another week. I taught my first class wearing N 95 the entire time. I just hope I don’t end up getting Covid again in, spite of everything I’m doing . As far as I know so far no one else students or faculty are masking at all anymore.

And those are only the people who have told the college that they had a positive test because who knows how many people are actually testing or informing anyone if they do test positive.

Probate Issues Part 2

I posted a while back on this. I am VERY upset to say the least.. sorry for the caps. After signing all of the needed papers in Late February early March, our probate has still not been filed by the lawyer who we paid a large fee to in December and who charged the filing fee in April I believe on my credit card. I started contacting him every 2 weeks or so starting in March after we signed the papers, to see when I had to drop of the original documents to the probate court and he stopped responding to me, even once I had called him at his office and I could tell he was there but did not come to the phone to talk to me. At that point he had charged the filing fee without doing anything.

Finally after my brother who is the executor called him every day for a week, in May I believe, and he finally answered a call or called back- he told my brother that nothing had been done because I had not dropped of the will. That is a lie! He told me initially that when he filed this he would then tell me to drop off the documents to the courts and in spite of me contacting me him numerous times over a three month period to ask what was going on and when I had to drop off documents he avoided/ignored me.

The instructions are documented in emails. He never told me when to drop off the will etc. and I found out later I could have done that in advance when I called the court, they store it in a vault and make a copy of it for you if you want one.

I called him right after my brother told me what he said and I was very upset but still remained as cordial as possible, reading to him what he had said in the emails. He became rude and said ok, you are right blah, blah... and then eventually said to me that he wanted to talk to my brother not me, the executor, who he is writing the letters testamentary for.

I am also his client and I was the idiot who made the decision to hire him, one of my BIGGEST mistakes ever.

After that I contacted the bar association and a few other probate lawyers to try to decide what to do. Our lawyer had wanted me to drop off the will the next day at his office when I finally spoke to him, after he had contacted my brother he finally answered a call from me. I could not do it because my car was being repaired for a few days. Initially he wanted me to send the original will out of state to him where he was for the winter.. which I refused to do because it could get lost etc. So we had agreed that I would drop it off at the court. Another option was drop it off at his office, but I chose the court. And now after all of this there was no way I would give him the original will because who knows what will happen and if he will ever file this etc. in a timely manner.

The bar association was also hard to get ahold of, no one answers the phone there, it took a week. Then I spoke with someone who I had spoken with before finally. She said we can make two complaints for negligence and for return of fee but the best way is to ask him for money back first. The lawyers all said they would have to do a new case and one said it could take 6-9 months and they wanted more money than we already paid this lawyer.

The thing I am most upset about here is I am on a time frame for a suit to hold the hospital and others accountable for my father's death. I had spoken to another lawyer via the bar association referral who said we have to file a late notice of claim and need the probate to do this. Our lawyer knew all of this, I discussed it all with him in detail, and he said he would help me to do that myself when the probate was done.

He has delayed this for 4-5 months now and I am worried I am going to lose my chance to do that. This is VERY important to me. This hospital also murdered my mother 30 years or so ago. I will not go into the details of what was done to my father but it was the MOST traumatic thing I have ever been through in my life and he was tortured for 10 months after they infected him with covid. At the end they caused a cardiac arrest and then harassed me to kill him nonstop for one month slowly stopping any treatment he was still receiving.

We decided the fastest way to get this done is to continue with this lawyer, so last Monday right after my close friend passed at home, I went to drop off the will. This lawyer has lied and gaslighted me now numerous times. He said he was going away for one week 2 weeks ago, and would immediately file this when he came back. Now I finally called when he ignored my text all week, and left a message at the office. Again someone said he is unavailable. But he did text me back finally and said he was on vacation for 2 weeks and just got back... so which is it? You were on vacation for one or two weeks?

The court told me to tell the lawyer to make a note that this needs to be rushed which I told him and he says he needs to know the deadline for a law suit- for which I don't know the exact deadline, it may be one year which means he has fucked up my suit if this is not done immediately.

I am realizing, something I knew already on some level, that NO ONE CAN EVER BE TRUSTED. The fee structure should be set up so that the entire fee is not paid until the work is done. He has had all of our money for a long time now and has done nothing. The initial papers in February had some serious errors in them which I told him to correct and that took another 2-3 weeks to do, if they had been minor errors we would have signed them. It has been nothing but delays and lies once he had our fee and started ignoring me.

I need to know if I have any recourse here if this stops me from going ahead with a wrongful death and medical negligence law suit.

Lawyer won't respond

We have a lawyer handling a probate of part of my father’s estate. It is taking forever. I have contacted him numerous times asking when I will have to drop off important documents to the court as well as other questions. After a certain point when we had signed and notarized papers he’s not responding back to me and I’m not sure what to do now.

We have already paid him so there’s really no way to hire someone else at this point in time. I’m starting to get worried that something is very odd about this whole situation. He also made some serious errors on the documents which I had to point out to him and request that he correct them and send them back to us.

Text in this website is suddenly tiny in safari

What is going on? When I try to enlarge it with the AA at the top left enlarging it 200% even has no effect and neither does changing it in settings/Safari zoom.

Air Drop Harassed by Student

I was air drop harassed by a student yesterday during a class. It was not direct sexual harassment, but it was nonetheless harassment and a personal attack. Has anyone dealt with this before and what did you do? I pretty much know that I will not be supported by administration if I decide to do something official about it.

I also am now worried my info/data could be exposed. Apple assured me it can't be but I have read two articles that say it can be.

I advise everyone to turn off air drop and allow no one to air drop you randomly due to proximity etc. I was tricked into this because I assumed the student whose name popped up was sending work images. I usually do this via email. I will now turn air drop off on all my devices.

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