I don’t know, I just don’t know. I took the GRE again today (last time I’m ever taking that…yee-haw), and there was a computer error (the dang nabbed GRE is on a computer), and so they had to re-boot my computer, and it was supposed to start off where I had been, at 16 minutes left in the section, but rather it started back at 20. I told them that, and they said “oh….that’s lucky for you”. It was only so lucky, because the questions went back to where they had been at 20 minutes to go, also, but since I’d already done them I could do them again very quickly, and probably gained time. I kept saying “I may have been advantaged by that”, and they kept looking at me blankly. Another woman in the test, whose computer had also failed, said “My computer failed, and I don’t feel advantaged at all”, so that was luck.
The Modern Language Association sent me money today. This has never happened before, in fact, as a rule, they take my money. They sent me $45, which they say they’ve sent because I overpaid my dues, but I probably didn’t, because as a rule I get e-mails from them telling me I can’t pay the student rate for dues until I’m a grad student, and that I owe them five more dollars. I almost never send the five more dollars, because I am a student. This time I sent it, because I was in England, and didn’t need U.S. money anyway. I certainly did not give them $45 dollars, but, again, I’m fine with it, and it was luck, too (although, of course, I’ll e-mail and ask them about it).
I also got flowers today. This wasn’t luck, but rather very nice. However, it was luck that I should know such pleasant people as would send me flowers, and so that’s good, too.
Strange day. Also, it was way sunny.
