Inner dialogue

A Conversation with SupremeAnna
by The Interviewer

Interviewer: Hey, Anna, how's it going?
SupremeAnna: As good as can be expected.
Interviewer: So, why aren't you working on your literature review?
SupremeAnna: Well, I uh...
Interviewer: Why are you wasting your time on this pointless attempt at absurdist comedy?
SupremeAnna: I'm not attempting absurdist comedy! I hated that unit in junior English!
Interviewer: Right, that's why you dropped lines from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party for three weeks.
SupremeAnna: It was on my mind, we were studying it for like a month!
Interviewer: Uh huh, sure. Let's get back to my original point...why aren't you working?
SupremeAnna: ...
Interviewer: You do know time is running out?
SupremeAnna: Yeah, no need to rub it in.
Interviewer: It's five minutes to midnight and instead of working, you're doing this.
SupremeAnna: You're pretty annoying for something that is just a literary device.
Interviewer: It's your brain, girl.
SupremeAnna: I don't have to take this. I'm busy...
Interviewer: Yes, you are...yet for all the effort you put in, you've done substantially little.
SupremeAnna: You're a big old meanie!
Interviewer: Hey, someone's gotta make with the tough love.
SupremeAnna: I'm losing my mind.
Interviewer: No, you're losing precious time. End this farce and GO BACK TO WORK!
SupremeAnna: Can I at least say something about my day?
Interviewer: You went to school, mucked around, thought about Mr. Heartbreaker for twenty minutes, ate a bag of potato chips, came home and fiddled around with your report. That about cover it?
SupremeAnna: Well, when you say it, it sounds kinda dull.
Interviewer: It was dull.
SupremeAnna: I'm going to bed.
Interviewer: That would be for the best, as no one is talking to you on MSN anyhow.
SupremeAnna: You're really mean.
Interviewer: Why, thank you. Coming from you, that's a compliment.
SupremeAnna: I'm leaving.
Interviewer: Why haven't you left already?

Final thought: Really, I'm leaving...I'm going...I'm gone...okay, okay, that's it for today.