Dreary Week in DAH-man-land

DAH: So, how's your week going?

Monkey: "How's my week going?" How do you think my week's going? I'm a sock monkey. I just sit here until you talk to me.

DAH: Yeah, OK. So, how's it going?

Monkey: Fine. Are you bored, or what?

DAH: No, not bored.

Monkey: So, what?

DAH: Uninspired and under-accomplished.

Monkey: You? The oh-so-busy DAH-boy? Not getting anything done?

DAH: Not getting anything worthwhile done.

Monkey: I'm just sitting here, watching you work, hour after hour, day after day, you sitting at your computer, you talking on the phone, you (occasionally) getting up and going somewhere to do something, and you're telling me none of that was worthwhile?

DAH: I didn't feel like I accomplished anything.

Monkey: Pathetic.

DAH: And don't call me "DAH-boy." Call me "DAH-man."

Monkey: I will not. That doesn't make you any less pathetic.

DAH: Maybe not, but it does make me feel more mature.

Monkey: Have your mature-self give a little thought to the importance of just doing what you must, day by day.

DAH: If only there were some bigger emergency, or fire drill, to raise the stakes a bit.

Monkey: Urgency and adrenalin are not key features of "accomplishing something that matters," not in monkey-land, anyway.

DAH: Not in DAH-man-land, either.

Monkey: So just do what you have to do. If you're not bored, you must have things you need to do.

DAH: And I'm doing them.

Monkey: And don't they matter?

DAH: They just don't seem urgent and essential, not this week.

Monkey: Stop thinking in circles. What's that Garrison Keillor thing you're always saying?

DAH: "You can only do so much. But you have to do that much."

Monkey: There you go.

DAH: But what about the other Garrison Keillor thing I'm always saying?

Monkey: What's that?

DAH: "They're doing their best. They don't know that their best isn't good enough."

Monkey: That's Garrison Keillor? Are your sure?

DAH: What if that's me? Doing my best, but it isn't good enough?

Monkey: Then you're screwed.

DAH: That's what I thought. Thanks.

Monkey: Don't mention it.

DAH: Maybe next week will be better. Maybe next week I'll feel more necessary.

Monkey: And maybe pigs will fly.

DAH: Maybe they will.

Monkey: You can but hope, DAH-man.

DAH is David Anthony Hance at www.DAHplaytime.com