On September 12th and email with a new version of Spirits To Enforce snuck its way into my inbox on my computer at work. And there is sat. Waiting until today, when out it leaped, gleeful, to bare witness to my first major screw up: copying the old version of a script for 12 hungry actors with 15 hours to prepare a staged reading of a brilliantly funny play.12 scripts. 78 pages. 12 x 78. 936 pages. Around $45 at Office Max. And how many trees.
Sigh.
But anyone who has messed up and cares about messing up and not messing up knows that it is not about money or about trees, but about Pride. That lovely and most frequent deadly sin. That over-exploited tragic flaw. In the end the versions are so similar that it mattered little. It took 37 minutes to remedy. And yet I'm still hot and bothered.
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