HB COLD

You know it's been a while since I've done any acting, but in the past two days I have read and recorded 52 scenes, using 8 different character voices, of all ages, including several female characters and for the first time in my life I've gotten used to the way I sound when recorded. You know something else, I pronounce a couple of words really strange. People have always told me that I have a particular way of speaking, a complimentary way of telling me that I have a funny accent, but until I began to listen to myself regularly, like 90 minutes a day (it's all I can muster before I begin to go a little crazy) I never knew just what they meant. And when I speak I don't hear it, but when I listen I sure do. It happened once before when I did a voice over for a student project of mine and now it's back. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I am reading and not really acting? I have no idea.

This weekend was the Midsummer Celebration and it really does feel like the summer is halfway over and at the same time, it just began. I mean they are already selling the summer clothes at a discount. But at least the weekend was a good one. Drinks by the harbor, drinks by the sauna, drinks by the mosquitoes, mosquitoes by the sauna, mosquitoes by my ankles, my feet, my head. I'm telling you when the wind dies down and the mosquitoes come out, they really come out. And the funny thing is, for however much a problem the mosquitoes seem to be here, and they are a problem to be sure, there are even t-shirts with the mosquito as the Finnish Air Force, but regardless of the obvious, the OFF and other items for sale are really expensive and sold in tiny amounts. Yeah, I understand it from the retailers point of view, but seriously isn't it a bit of a gouge? Shouldn't the government get involved?