I will never live down of the shame of that time my orchestra said we were doing “My Shot” from Hamilton and I naturally thought I’d be on the violin. (And was so excited I thought I might explode). But the she flipped it on me a month into learning the song and said “since you know all the lyrics you could be the singer! Unless I find someone” and I agreed because of course she would find someone, right?
Then it was the week of the concert and she hadn’t found anybody yet and suddenly I found myself standing in front of a microphone with dozens of student, teachers, and parents all watching and filming me fucking RAP HAMILTON WITH BLUE HAIR AND FUCKING SHAME ON MY FACE.
Y’all there’s a big ass picture of me doing it in the yearbook and every time I visit my high school I get at least one “Aren’t you Hamilton?” and I just fucking—
MS. FUCKING H DO YOU KNOW HOW WHITE YOUVE MADE ME LOOK BITCH I AM TRANSPARENT OVER HERE
