So I got a call from a former coworker who needed me to do him a favor on a classified system and.. blah blah blah.. long (and top secret) story short, I agreed to meet him in between two of our buildings on campus to pick up a CD.

I had completely spaced on the fact that we were holding a book fair downstairs, but I figured it would be a great opportunity for me to browse books.  Cause I love books.

(I love Narnia.  Which I have read, by the way.  Yes, all of them.  I just read them when I was eight.)

I was naturally drawn to a rack of children’s books, and Horton Hatches the Egg called to me.  Seeing as how I played Mayzie la Bird in Seussical: the Musical! last summer, I thought it would be fun to read how my character came about.

So I read the first page:

Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg:
“I’m tired and I’m bored, And I’ve kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day.
It’s WORK! How I hate it!
I’d MUCH rather play!
I’d take a vacation, fly off for a rest
If I could find SOMEONE to stay on my nest!
If I could find someone, I’d fly away–free…”

HOLY CRAP.  I’m totally Mayzie, y’all. 

 

Thank God Bryan can be Horton.