Day 22: Standards of Practice

Still backlogged by a day--hopefully I'll catch up later. I've finished my 7 days of music, and so now have free reign...

So, I really want to watch Battlestar: Galactica, but I'm not allowing myself to until I've written a monologue. Question is... what should it be about?

I think I'll go with the topic of "addiction"... I've already done a monologue about an alcoholic, and I don't particularly want to write one about a drug addict. I think I'll go with a caffeine addict. It's an innocuous sort of addiction, but one which affects many lives all the same. She's a smoker, too, perhaps?

She's a woman in her early thirties who's been trying to find husband material for so long that she barely remembers the qualities she actually likes in a man. Her standards are ridiculously high, and no one can ever match up.

She's talking to a friend of hers--Corinne--about her latest attempt. She was at a bar, a little tipsy, and this guy approached her... he fit the bill for potential partner, but she wanted an out, so she said she was there with friends. She was getting along quite well with him--he was handsome, funny and smart.

Then his girlfriend came along. She was an ugly cow; bleached blonde hair, excessive makeup--she really did look a little like a cow.

She wonders why it is that all the good guys are either taken or gay. She just doesn't understand.

Yeah, it's kind of typical. Let's see if we can make it a little interesting.

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