The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It is another week, and school has started again! Unfortunately, the little nine year old did not have the best first day at school. There were a bunch of miscommunication and the school sort of "lost" the little person for about 40 minutes. Basically, everything that could fail, did. There are several option for release of the students, and apparently, someone forgot to look at the electronic permission form I submitted in it's entirety, and made an assumption that wasn't true. A little fright, but at least everyone is safe and sound at the end. (The second day went much better.) Now...while I am far from the type of person to believe in anything supernature or otherworldly (I mean I expect when I die that I would just disappear), I do tend to correlate a lot of events with karma. During the meet the teacher event on the Friday before, a little girl, who couldn't have been more than 3 or 4, stopped right in front of me as we walked out t...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It's been over TWO months since I last posted. Now...what have I been up to since then. In the early part of July, I went to Netherlands for a work trip. I swear...I don't know what weird cloud of luck that surrounded that trip...but it was a trip full of all sorts of "kinks". First, when I was booking the flight, I thought I got a great deal: business class for under $3000, round trip. Well...it has been a while since I traveled for business...I didn't realize that I landed in Reagan and had to take off from Dulles. Situation 1 : Yep, I didn't realize that I had a connection that was in two different airports. (And I live in HOUSTON, where I've advised OTHER people to watch out for the exact same thing.) And how I found OUT, was after I wondered around for 45 minutes in Reagan trying to find a gate that didn't exist. Yes, you've read that right, it took me FORTY-FIVE minutes! Now, the good thing was I have a thing about a...