pink goes good with green
Ten minutes ago, I'm in chemistry. And I've been on a Wicked high since last night when I was skimming through looking for Adam because I was too impatient to watch the whole thing, AND, also, my mom was in bed and I didn't want to watch it without her. So I just wanted an Adam fix. I landed on Defying Gravity instead. And I forgot just how. much. that song means to me. And how much The Wizard of Oz means to me. And how much the Wicked Witch/Elphaba means to me. I could cry just thinking about it, and I do sometimes. And seeing it in New York, that was the hardest I've ever cried in public. And I have just been so overcome with all of it all through last night and this morning.
So I'm in chemistry, doodling the lyrics instead of taking notes. Because I seriously could not focus on anything else and it was literally killing me not to have my iPod on, playing these songs. My professor says she's going to do a demo. She pulls out some red cabbage and starts dropping hunks of it in a beaker of methanol. Red cabbage has some pigment that's soluble or something, so basically by putting in there, she was taking out a chemical, an indicator. We're talking about acids and bases, so she fills up two smaller beakers and she's going to drop this indicator into them so we can see if the respective liquids are acids or bases. She does the first one, and the liquid turns from clear to pink. She does the second one, and the liquid turns from clear to light green. And they match perfectly and are sitting right next to each other, projected up on her big white screen. I got goosebumps and started crying, over fucking cabbage in chemistry class, and I have no more words at all. What are the odds that she'd pick chemicals whose levels would be a perfect match to Wicked and what are the odds that she'd do this today.
So I'm in chemistry, doodling the lyrics instead of taking notes. Because I seriously could not focus on anything else and it was literally killing me not to have my iPod on, playing these songs. My professor says she's going to do a demo. She pulls out some red cabbage and starts dropping hunks of it in a beaker of methanol. Red cabbage has some pigment that's soluble or something, so basically by putting in there, she was taking out a chemical, an indicator. We're talking about acids and bases, so she fills up two smaller beakers and she's going to drop this indicator into them so we can see if the respective liquids are acids or bases. She does the first one, and the liquid turns from clear to pink. She does the second one, and the liquid turns from clear to light green. And they match perfectly and are sitting right next to each other, projected up on her big white screen. I got goosebumps and started crying, over fucking cabbage in chemistry class, and I have no more words at all. What are the odds that she'd pick chemicals whose levels would be a perfect match to Wicked and what are the odds that she'd do this today.