tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976770.post3849799781022408040..comments2023-10-21T18:11:04.414-07:00Comments on Joystory: Measured ProgressJoy Reneehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976987581528470589noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976770.post-60389899412604804312007-11-08T09:46:00.000-08:002007-11-08T09:46:00.000-08:00You said, "I tell you, it was the weirdest feeling...You said, "I tell you, it was the weirdest feeling to have these items (the ballet DVD and four books) fall into my hands when I least expected them. I have read a lot about synchronicity but have seldom consciously noted it when it was happening to me."<BR/><BR/>I have another synchronicity for you, mine! I had car trouble, which my son fixed for me, but he paid $70 for the parts I needed. Maybe more, but $70 was what he told me. Because I didn't have the money, he told me he didn't have to have it right now, and I took him up on it. He does, however, have a wife and two young adult children, so I need to give him the money as soon as I can.<BR/><BR/>Last night I got a phone call from my ex-husband, who had gotten a call from an old friend of mine. She didn't have my current cell phone number (my only phone) and needed to reach me. When I returned her call, she said, "Can you imagine how desperate I was that I would call your ex-husband to get your phone number?"<BR/><BR/>She needed me today, the very next morning, because tomorrow (Friday) she must present a paper in Atlanta (two hours from here) and HAD NOT STARTED WRITING THE PAPER. She wanted me to "ride herd on today's classes" for her. She teaches English and Humanities classes, and I am in the university's computer lab with the third class of English students looking for resources for their research papers. That's why I have time to use this computer to send you this note!<BR/><BR/>Now the synchronicity ... she has already paid me ... ta-da! ... exactly $70 for today's work. You did noticed that is exactly what I need to pay back my son? Yessss!<BR/><BR/>Not only that, but one of my characters is also a professor, so I've been typing on my novel while "working" for my friend. What fun to watch the students doing research that is so very different from the way I had to do it when I was in college, back in the olden days when we had to trudge to the library, look up books, find the books on the shelves, make notes on three-by-five cards, type the paper (using white out or erasers to rid the page of mistakes), cut and paste (literally cutting apart sections of a page and taping them back together in a different order), and then finally type up a clean copy to turn in. If we wanted to keep a copy, we had to find a copy machine and pay for each page copied.<BR/><BR/>These students have no idea how wonderful computer-accessed resources really are!<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you are feeling better. When I finish the afternoon class in Western Humanities, I'll go home, put up my feet, and relax before getting back to NaNoWriMo. See you later.Bonnie Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07813549471704485150noreply@blogger.com