November 5, 2007
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The Daily News
1 I KNOW the coincidence stuff can get ridiculous, but I can't see NOT commenting on that fun one on Friday. It was a little after I had sent Friday's DN to y'all when I opened this book called The Daily Spark right to a page entitled Starry Night.
2 I had just predicted in the DN that a coincidence was just around the corner when that happened.
3 I hadn't reported a couple of others, but perhaps for the record it might be a lark. Last Tuesday, for example, I had purchased tickets to The Jersey Boys at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. That was the night before I was to begin the regular local ghost stories for my classes. I had been looking for a book called Haunted Houses of California by Antoinette May so I could review the Toys 'R' Us Sunnyvale "haunting". I couldn't find the book the day before, but that night I finally found it.
4 I just opened it randomly and the page it turned to jumped out at me.
5 The page was entitled Curran Theatre. I just opened the book and that was the page.
6 Fast-forward to Halloween morning. At a management meeting, one of the routine topics that came up was that the Emergency Cards we need to fill out had disappeared, and we were going to need to tell the staff they needed to get new ones.
7 Of course, it occurred to me that the last one I filled out was a couple of years ago, and I ALWAYS fill one out and never get it in. So I just sort of thumped my head, but was glad I never got it in, because they would have lost it anyway.
8 On Friday I when I was trying to get a journal idea, I looked around my bookshelf for books that might help. I spotted a Mensa book and pulled it down from the shelf. I really hadn't even thought of the book in quite some time.
9 There was a piece of paper folded into it. I opened the book and noticed the piece of paper was folded in half and stapled at the top. I pulled it out of the book, pulled the staple out and unfolded it.
10 It was my Emergency Card from 2004-5.
11 What am I, David Blaine?
12 I didn't even want to TELL those stories until after the Daily Spark thing for fear of overkill.
13 You can't make this kinda crap up.
14 Well, I couldn't wait to show my class, so I brought my notes from the meeting, the Mensa book, Mays' Haunted Houses book, AND the Daily Spark to the students. I had told them about the Starry Night stories so I just sort of bored them with Edgar Allan Poe's spectacularly unspectacular The Bells. Right when their heads were ready to turn to mush, I told them to put their books away and that we were going to finish the day with coincidence updates.
15 Easy act to follow. I had a bag filled with all that nonsense, narrated what I just wrote, and they absolutely LOVED it! GREAT ending to a Friday Heidi week, and no homework to boot.
16 I"m sorta wondering what standards I hit on No Child Left Behind. Oh yeah. The standard about ghosts, the one you can't see.
17 Legends.
18 For the record, I'll try not to continue with this thread, because as I told me old frind und confeeedahnt Goof, it's just pouring air out of a Dixie Cup after a while. He wrote and told me that it's a whole lotta humbug anyway, and that if you look carefully enough, you can "...see tits on a can of Campbell's soup."
19 Oh, I imagine.
20 Well, humbug or no, it's now officially on the record. I'll try to dump this one off on ybdrama.com if I can access it. It'd be nice to sort of finish up the Heidi Chronz, although it clearly is a story that just continues...
21 And right when you think it's safe to go back into the Theatre...
22 Instant Karma.
23 Gonna knock you right off your feet.
24 Have a gorgeous day.
25 Peace.
~H~
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