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you might hate me post-reading this… uhh… post. im having a pretty lucky week, and the vastness of my good ‘fortune’ might be hatred-producing. just a warning.

so the campus jesus kids (they prefer the title “campus for christ”) we’re running this RIDICULOUS event in which they were giving away 2500 dollars (for the astute reader, you can probably guess where this is going). all week they were advertising all over campus, “what do 2500 dollars and god have in common?” and “is anything free?” if youre actually interested/outraged by their “ploy” to bribe people to their speaker, you can check out isanythingfree.com for their justification. ironically, i made this post on their discussion board mere hours before the event. so i went because i thought it would be funny to witness the “exodus” (har har) of people that left after the draw, since they were doing the draw first and allowing people to leave without hearing their hurray-for-jesus speaker. AND because i wanted to win all that jesus money, of course. so why am i telling this story? well i won the 2500 clams. they read my number and i leaned over to my friend laura in disbelief: “i think i just won.” she freaked out. i started to shake a little. then i proceeded down the aisle to get my giant novelty cheque.

the next day, high on my winnings, i stroll into work, tell the crew about my unbelievable good luck, make fun of the jesus kids, check my email. apparently 2500 is just the beginning, as i find out im on the a-list for the sshrc scholarship (this big government scholarship for grad school), and since everyone on the a-list has gotten the scholarship in the past, im almost guaranteed full funding for wherever i do grad school next year. at this point, im a little light-headed. i also consider buying a helmet, because this much good cant happen to someone without something bad happening as well.

so people are asking me how im gonna spend the money. i got some good advice of “do something good for you, do something good for someone else, and do something bad for yourself.” so the good for me, besides saving for grad school, is maybe a digital camera (ive been “borrowing” my moms for years), the good for someone else is a chunk of it to charity, and the bad for me is a night of booze and blasphemy this saturday, with all my nearest and dearest invited for free booze. if you read my blog, you’re invited, so email me for details. the more the merrier.

apparently luck strikes in threes, and while my lotto 649 or whatever lottery ticket it was i bought because everyone was telling me to didnt hit (god the lottery is stupid), i did happen to win a nice little prize package of dvds at the mit movie trivia night, with help from my fellow ‘peter panopticon’ teammate romy. a giant douchebag won the grand prize dvd player, but my mommy just bought me one of those recently, so the dvds were just dandy.

oh shit i gotta go, i have a doctor’s appointment to get an xray of my colon. apparently there’s some sort of lucky horseshoe wedged up there…