luck

twice i've had tremendously serendipitous incidents this week:

first, i was going to one world for some eating & drinking & working, and the moment i walked out of my house, i realized i'd left my keys... i decided not to waste the next bunch of minutes thinking about how to get into the house, when i knew there were only two ways: i could break in the basement window, which could possibly hurt the hinge on the window but would be fixable and preferable to sleeping outside... or i might be able to catch my downstairs neighbor later and she'd let me in the house.

either way, i'd do those things later, when i was done spending time at one world. procrastinate... plus, why break in now when julia would probably be home later? she wasn't home when this happened.

so i went to one world, and was doing my thing, when in walks angie (my usually annoying, but soon-to-be-quite useful friend)... we talked for a while when i remembered that i was locked out, and now angie was here, and being a friend who is in charge of my cats when i am away, she had a key to my house! my 'problem' was solved... and angie's not annoying, i was just kidding.


now today, i was headed out of school early because i had a workshop for the new math series in district 150. all along, i'd been thinking that this workshop was at 'calvin coolidge' which is near my house. i knew the workshop was actually at the school named lincoln, but i was thinking lincoln was the school near my house. when i left school & was driving through traffic & construction, it hit me that the workshop was at lincoln and calvin coolidge is the school near my house...

just as in the problem with my keys, i had a few different ways to solve the problem, but the most sure way i could solve the problem was to consult the peoria journal star, section R, which featured, today of all days, a full page map of peoria with bubbles pointing to each of the schools in peoria!!! crazy that i should have taken this article (for the purpose of mailing to my neighbors who are in rochester minnesota) on this day and needed a map of the city detailed for where the schools are. random! and then when i saw where lincoln was, i realized it is where i used to go for summer school meetings and other workshops & stuff...

i think i've talked about floating on the clouds and how my friend jacquie had told me i just float through life and find things so easy and stuff... these are just a couple more examples...

um... yeah, so how about those hailstones? if i'd been in the clouds during that, i'd have been dizzy, cold, and nauseous... not to mention, with each rolling updraft & subsequent pull of gravity, i'd have been coated with ice, getting thicker & thicker until i was heavy enough to fall to the ground and put a massive hailstone dent in the hood of someone's car.