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I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Do you remember as a kid, how everything that was touted as being "important" was boring as hell? Yeah. Like the arduously important church sermons that seemed to go on for hours while I imagined that my left piggy toe has been asked to dance with the singing frog in his latest cartoon debut. For some reason it was "important" that my leg not be in the mist of a spasmatic fit of gleeful abandon when the pastor got to "bow your head in a moment of reflection."

Well we're learning a really "important" song in choir. The piece is based on four texts of Thomas Jefferson and boldly proclaims the need for freedom. And by boldly I mean smacking the audience upside the head with every painstakingly important syllable. How necessary is it to separate every syllable of the word ci-vi-liz-a-tion into a two measure chant of epic boredom? At first I wanted to hurt myself every time we rehearsed the piece. Now I just want to hurt the director...