Thursday, January 6, 2005

Snow Day!
Which is only cool until you remember that you have to make them up in June. School now runs till June 23rd.

I, personally, was rooting for a 2 hour delay.

So, the all-important question: WHAT FABULOUSLY EXCITING THINGS DID I DO ON THIS UNEXPECTED VACATION FROM SCHOOL?

Well, I ...

1) I watched Fiddler on the Roof with my mother. We have been meaning to watch it for some time, and now we have. It was pretty good, for a musical, though I will have "If I Were a Rich Man" stuck in my head, intermingled with the half of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that's been lodged in there all week. (Which half? The mildly freakish second half, of course. What else could I manage to get lodged in there? And it's been there all week, with the exception of work, where I have had to keep myself in close check to make sure I don't start singing "Killer Queen" loud enough to freak anyone out, since people singing to themselves in the public is freaky enough, even when they aren't unsuccessfully mimicking "Killer Queen," failing, and trying several more times until it sounds right ...)

2) Singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" to myself under my breath. (See above. On a side note, my eighth grade history teacher used to give you spins on a wheel he had if you were particularly brilliant or did something truly amazing, and you could win stupid prizes off it, like a used tape dispenser. My friends and I, cool people we were, knew this was to make fun of how we would fight over anything that could be won [and fight some did], so we would go in, win things, and refuse them. Everyone was disappointed in us, and we laughed, because we had beaten the system. To relate this to that whole thing, he used to offer spins for a) winning an American Idol, and we always had the same horrendous singer try and lose. He'd get no votes, and the teacher'd be all, 'it was very close, you'll get 'em next time,' and we'd all laugh or b) singing all of "Bohemian Rhapsody." He never got any takers on that one. Had I known the song at the time, I so would have, but I was still being a new age hermit back then. I should go back sometime, and if he doesn't kick me out for liking Benedict Arnold, not being socialist, being an otaku, and loving Lord of the Rings, all things he can't stand, I shall have to ask to sing it for spins.)

3) I went to work. It was ... work.

4) I showered, then went back to bed, then shoveled, then thought about showering again, but forgot to. Which is something I don't usually do.

And that's it. I watched a long movie, went to work, and slept.

I would have practiced, but in a moment of stupidity, I forgot about the threat of snow and LEFT MY BASSOON AT SCHOOL.

I have a cute bassoon-playing frog keychain on my bag. It's name is Elmer. The keychain says so. My other keychain has my name on it. So, one keychain says Elmer, and one says my name. I hope no one's confused.

2 TRULY BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MUSICALS:

1) Tevye dancing on that beam in the barn, stirring up enough dust to kill a small buffalo, singing with gusto, "All day long I'd biddy biddy bum, if I were a wealthy man!" (Eat your heart out, Gwen Stefani!)

2) Perchik, Hodel's mildly creepy communist boyfriend, who will undoubtedly spend the rest of his life in that prison in Siberia, as I doubt the czar wants communist activists like him hanging around where people can hear them. Too bad for Hodel.
Money is the curse of the world!

Tevye, with again, great gusto and gesturing. He is also talking to God again, or possibly his horse. It is often hard to tell which he is addressing.
Then may the Lord smite me with it! [pause] And may I never recover!
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