365 Sketches: Single White Friendster Update

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Single White Friendster Update

Okay, so I'll be the first to admit, this is odd.

I woke up this morning wanting to add something to one of the 365 scenes. A scene I wrote almost two years ago!

It's "Single White Friendster" about a lonely co-worker trying desperately to develop a friendship with her co-worker who prefers to keep things professional. I love scenes where people awkwardly try to connect with others. Little too much like my own life, really.

Anyway, you can read the original scene HERE.

Here's what I changed near the end...

KIMBERLY

Happy birthday. Really. Happy birthday. I just like to keep my life in different compartments, Wendy. I have my co-workers; I have my family and friends. I like to leave my work at work.

WENDY

Sure. I understand. I’m the same way, really. I have work and I have my “not” work. Work stays here. Birds, Scrabble, decorating my jeans jackets with rhinestones and metal studs, washing my mother’s hair, all stays at home.

KIMBERLY

Good. What are you doing for your birthday?

WENDY

I just told you.

KIMBERLY

You’re washing your mother’s hair on your birthday? (Wendy nods.) Well, your mom must like that.

WENDY

It’s hard to tell since the stroke. I play for her in Scrabble. I usually “let” her win. And then she watches me decorate our matching jeans jackets.

(Awkward hopeful pause)

KIMBERLY

Sounds like a good time.

Yep. I gave Wendy's mother a stroke. All in the name of comedy, of course.

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365 Sketches Schedule

THU 6/3
8PM – Weeks 1 & 2 “Dancing with the Devil” (director – Mary Jo Bolduc)
10PM – Weeks 3 & 4 “Diversity Chicken” (director – Jason Fleece)

FRI 6/4
8PM – Weeks 5 & 6 “Zombie Space Aliens” (director – Regan Davis)
10PM – Weeks 7 & 8 “Dried and Cured Meats” (director - Rebekah Walendzak)
Midnight – Weeks 9 & 10 “The End of the World” (director - Rinska Prestinary)

SAT 6/5
8PM – Weeks 11 & 12 “An Affair to Whatever” (director – Dunbar Dicks)
10PM – Weeks 13 & 14 “While On My Way To Hell” (director – Rebecca Langguth)
Midnight – Weeks 15 & 16 “Weenus” (director- Derek Van Tassel)

SUN 6/6
7PM – Weeks 17 & 18 “Shows You Would Never See If You Didn’t Know Someone In The Cast” (director - Scott Olson)
9PM – Weeks 19 & 20 “Chekhov in the Trailer Park”- (director – Rich Baker)

MON 6/7
8PM –Weeks 21 & 22 “Jerk Sandwich”- (director – Lillie Frances)
Weeks 23 & 24 “Red, White and Beer”- (director- Wendi Weber)

TUE 6/8
8PM – Weeks 25 & 26 “Twi-Lite” (director – Janna Sobel)
Weeks 27 & 28 “Disco Heaven” (director – David Rocco Facchini)

WED 6/9
8PM – Weeks 29 & 30 “Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Treadmill” (director – John Hildreth)
Weeks 31 & 32 “A Thing I Wrote” (director - Chris Othic)

THU 6/10
8PM – Weeks 33 & 34 “Boris vs. Nature” (director – Becky Eldridge)
10PM – Weeks 35 & 36 “Oblique Oblige” (director – Rose Kruger)

FRI 6/11
8PM – Weeks 37 & 38 “What If They Held A Peace Rally And Nobody Came?” (director – Amanda Rountree)
10PM – Weeks 39 & 40 “St. Drunken’s Day” (director – Mary Williamson)
Midnight – Weeks 41 & 42 “Dear Cancer” (Director – Tony Soto)

SAT 6/12
8PM – Weeks 43 & 44 “You Know – Like The End of the World” (director – Bina Martin)
10PM - Weeks 45 & 46 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia, Wolf?” (director – Rachel Staelens)
Midnight – Weeks 47 & 48 “Barflies At The Beach” (director – Danni Parpan)

SUN 6/13
7PM – Weeks 49 & 50 “Farewell To Monster Island” (director – Trish Vignola)
9PM – Weeks 51 & 52 “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” (director – Jen Ellison)