OTHER SELF: Hey now Self, don't be so sarcastic and mean. You just put up a wonderful Comedybration that people are still talking about. (www.comedybration.com)
SELF: It was only on Friday.
OTHER SELF: Cut that out right now. You worked hard on that. You wrangled folks in LA and MPLS, made props, marketing the thing, wrote the thing, edited it, directed and and learned your own lines in it.
SELF: Define "learned my own lines" I did some improvising.
OTHER SELF: But that is one of your skill sets, Self! Don't sell yourself short. You gave out prizes in your show. It was awesome.
SELF: People like prizes.
OTHER SELF: Also Self, did you even notice that you opened a show the week before your Comedybration? And that your first semester of grad school ended the same day the Comedybration opened? And joined a theatre company?
SELF: Well, the other show is...
OTHER SELF: The other show is Flanagan's Wake the an interactive Irish wake, you had to learn the lines, practice the improv and drive to St. Paul with your broken car every night for tech week, after already working the whole day and then having a comedybration rehearsal.
SELF: I supposee..
OTHER SELF: No, you don't 'suppose.' It's ok that you let posting on this blog slip when the other plates you were spinning had to keep spinning.
SELF: But I made an unofficial promise to post on this blog everyday for a whole year.
OTHER SELF: Plans can change! Accept that you can't plan life, you can try but things change. You wouldn't have traded any of these awesome things that happened this past 30 days?
SELF: Well, I wish my car wasn't broken.
OTHER SELF: All or nothing, Self. All or nothing.
SELF: In that case, no, I wouldn't have traded anything in the past 30 days in order to keep my blogging everyday record up.
OTHER SELF: See?
SELF: Yes, I see.
OTHER SELF: Why are you still being a gloomy gus, Self?
SELF: I don't know, that's just how Heather keeps writing me.
OTHER SELF: Oh. Well, wear this hat.
(OTHER SELF puts cowboy hat covered in blue feathers and tiny dump trucks on SELF's head.)
SELF: What is this?
OTHER SELF: I don't know. But I am sure we can make a metaphor about it.
SELF: At least this isn't a real play where a props person had to make this hat.
OTHER SELF: That's true Self. That's true.
SELF: Let's got eat Pad Thai.
OTHER SELF: Yes!
The End
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