Avid: To a Degree

"Shh!! It's starting!"
"Okay, seriously? This can't be that important."
"It might be."
"It wont be - I mean there's nothing there! You can see it in his eyes."
"Well if you'd shut up for a minute."
"Look I'm telling you this will be as worthless as-"
"Shit! Please be quiet... I want to hear this."
"Whatever, I wont hold my breath... (or my tongue)"
"Shut it, the curtain is lifting."

[Applause]

(A little timidly)
Welcome!
It's uh... it's been a while huh? Whoo... I'd introduce myself but it seems you might already know who I am so uh... Well then! I'm back! -ish.
Let's skip the formalities then shall we?

I'm in a rut. Things are going well, but only insofar as I'm willing to admit they're going at all. Balefully. Thought to be so anyway. Forgive me for my candor but there's really nothing to be done about it. I don't know. Maybe there is - I haven't seen any evidence of it yet.

Oh wait! Maybe we'll have a party! No? I guess that works about as well as any other opportunity to make things worse. Wait! Maybe we'll host a big dinner fashioned in the mode of Medieval mead halls where gallantry, chivalry, and pomp are seen as desirably the norm. That works right?

No... people will just get blackout and be too hung-over to do anything.

Maybe we should dress up in 100% organic cotton shirts, pre-worn denim jeans, and Birkenstock clogs and then spend the night in a stupor of New-Age "spirituality" while we sing songs about puddles!

No... people will just get high or tired... either way it'd suck.

Maybe I'll go for a run, purge myself of all negativity like I've been able to in the past. A 15 mile long-run dedicated entirely to bodily and spiritual cleansing!

No... It's 9 degrees outside and the fluid around my eyes would freeze me blind.

Maybe I could just talk to...

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"Okay... so what are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking I'd have loved to 'av gotten out of here before this shit-show started."
"What?! Can't you see he's bearing his soul?"
"Yeah! I don't wanna sit around for that! I've got more important stuff to do than waste my time while he's monologuing about God knows what... He's just trying to be cryptic that's all - keep the message hidden from them while he makes it blatantly clear just what the hell he's going on about, that he's -"
"Hey! That's enough! Just because you think you know everything doesn't mean you can make this all... cynical and shit."
"It's not cynical, it's just all about -"
--

...her...

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"There he said it. One word and it all comes crashing down... Curtain's dropped ass-hat!"
"Don't yell at him, this is personal. Just let him finish."
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No. Because that would be too forward of me.