On the Playlist 14AUG2018…

A bit of a sort of repeat today with "I don't wanna grow up" by Tom Waits in celebration of the Sylvinator's first day of high school. She has been stressed out the last couple weeks about starting high school but seemed in a good mood today when I picked her up.

We were talking about starting high school and I was trying to explain to her the concept of frosh week that was common when I went to high school. Looking it up on the internet I see that it is a bit of a Canadian concept and seems to have been toned down a bit. When I went to school (that sounds so cliche) the first week of school the incoming students were fair game for a variety of hazing like treatment that was under the banner of frosh. Things like shaving cream rubbed in your clothes or water balloons thrown at you. I knew a lot of senior students so was especially a marked kid when I went to high school but I managed to escape relatively unharmed that first week. My daughter just looked at me with a confused look when I explained this. 

Regardless of whether frosh is a thing anymore I think we both agree with the sentiment of this song that we would just rather not grow up. So a tribute to all the kids going back to school. 

Tom Waits - Bone Machine