Maybe it’s because I’ve lost my passion. Maybe it’s because this curriculum has hollowed me out into a withered husk of the man I was when I started this site. (On the plus side, I’ve lost some weight.) Who am I? Am I the man I was before? Or maybe that man has died and this blog is my alibi? Well, I’m definitely continuing to make references to Lord of the Rings and song lyrics that no one will ever get.
It’s probably Twitter that is displaced more of my witticisms. And a couple of times when I realized a tweet was more than 140 chars I just gave up. It used to be that when I get a funny thought, I just had to get it out on this blog or on Twitter. But now I just keep those thoughts to myself.
What have I felt besides fatigue? A foreboding sense of finality. For you see, this is the end of my apartment lease. I set out into the world in just a few short months. One semester more and I will find out what rotations has for me.
So there’s that.
I’m also inexplicably excited to see Les Mis although I’ve never ever read it or seen a stage version before. Yet something inexplicably draws me in like sequins to a drag queen. (Maybe that was the wrong analogy to use.) Anyway, I’ve been watching some of the songs from the stage on Youtube more times than I’m comfortable admitting. (You, too, would be uncomfortable mentioning any of the Jonas Bros in normal conversation.) And now ever since that first trailer, some of the songs are stuck in my head, irreversibly. That would explain my rhyming soliloquies,
spoken softly to myself,
They will not go till I can see, ♪
That movie at least one time or three. ♪
We will see. ♫
I actually have yet to go ♪
to any official musical. ♪
This will be the first. ♪
The first of a maybe life-long trend,♪
of stage productions to attend.♪
We will see… ♫
♫{crescendo}♫
Les Miserables!
♫