I've been sick for about the past week and a half, and have mostly lost my voice for the past 4 days. Fortunately I am blessed with paid sick days at my job, so I've actually been able to stay home and recuperate.

Now, a thought struck me as I was driving to pick Jaclyn up from work today. I realized that since talking--actually a croaky-whisper, to be precise--has made me cough like crazy and hurt my throat, I've been trying to say everything in as few words as possible and not talk just for the sake of hearing my own voice.

The thought was this: what if we all had a word quota? What if you only had, say 500 words allotted to you to speak on a given day? What would you talk about? What would you no longer talk about? Would you stop to think before you talked? Think about it...