Saturday, December 16, 2006

I'm like that Looney Tunes frog....

Sometimes I get a very nearly overwhelming urge to sing. It's probably a combination of extreme restlessness and a supressed need for attention.
The first time it happend was in college. I was sitting in my American history class and the professor was talking about hippies in California, or maybe I was just daydreaming about hippies in California, and then I got that Led Zeppelin song about 'Goin' to California' in my head. And then the urge came. I felt this really strong need to jump up on my desk and sing/scream in my best Robert Plant impression, "And BABY, BABY, Baby do you like it?!?" (even though that line is from Misty Mountain Hop and not Goin to California, but I guess it was just one that stuck with me.)
Then the other afternoon at work while feeling really stir crazy and probably with a little low blood sugar mixed in, too, I had another urge.
This time, I wanted to jump up and sing "Looking out on the morning rain..." and then I imagined the computer monkeys behind me at their desks would jump right in with the "wah-oo" that was needed. "I used to feel so uninspired (wah-oo)... and when I knew I had to face another day, oh, you know it made me feel so tired.."
I wonder what kind of reaction that would provoke....
It might be fun while it's happening, but what about the awkwardness afterwards?
Even if the whole office joined in to sing "Natural Woman" with me, we'd still have to sit back down at our computers when we were done and pretend to be normal again.
That would make me sad.

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