So, I'm going to college next year, and they have an opera program there. Next semester, they are doing Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado," which is one of the most popular operas ever written. A silly farce with nice music. I highly recommend it.

Anyway, they hold the auditions a semester in advance, and so as I'm an incoming freshman, I went to audition.

I got cast in the title role. I feel good about myself now.