6 Lucky Moments in My Life
So there's this guy named Jonathan Grubb, and he has a blog, and he likes to make entries that are lists of 8 things. I've always liked bullet points and outlines and lists so here I go. I'll do 6 today because it's almost dinner time, and I don't have the skill to manage 8. Yes, I'm too lazy to link. Low blood sugar!
6. Not buying "The Life Aquatic" from the Criterion section at Amoeba, coming back for it later and finding it sold, then discovering a copy for less in the Recent Arrivals section. There are scores of things like this that make up #6 for me; it's the little things that make you feel lucky sometimes.
5. Getting hit by a ricocheting champagne cork at the wrap of my most recent gig. Shaking up a bottle of bubbly and spraying it everywhere is a gesture for luck, so getting hit with the cork must be lucky too. Especially if it doesn't poke your eye out. This just happened, so I don't know what kind of luck I'll get from it.
4. I believe in making your own luck. I'm going to put this list at #4 in hopes that it will make some for me after my car turned out to be even more wrecked than was previously diagnosed (got t-boned by a Jeep while I was in NYC), I fell into video village on set and twisted my ankle and almost ripped out an earring, and I got annoyingly screwed by my health insurance's asinine prescription policies. HealthNet are a bunch of decaying zombie monkeys who fling poo and couldn't type a sonnet if you broadcast the Complete Workes with the BrainWaveControl-o-Tron turned to eleven.
3. Wandering around lost, alone, and drunk in London at 3 a.m., and having nothing worse happen to me than pissing my pants and finally getting back to the hostel to find that they'd given my bed to someone else. (Yes, I know what it's like to have to go that bad.)
2. Getting called to work in NYC last fall. It coincided with my decision to move to LA to start working full time as a scripty, and I met some amazing people, got another job from those connections (almost two, but I fucked one up), and got to list "S16 feature" at the top of my resume. (Which isn't that great, but it's better than what was there before.)
1. Back when we both lived in Seattle, my friend Chris won two free tickets to a Silent Movie Monday. He invited me, and when I took my seat I found an envelope telling me I'd won a free gift basket from Trader Joe's. So Chris lucked out on tickets, and then I lucked out on a big canvas bag full of cookies, wine, cheese, shampoo and mixed nuts. Luck squared!
This is all really me trying to tell myself it's okay that I'm not going to Guatemala.
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