Wed, November 18, 2009
Stark White Dystopian Synchronicity Dept.—12:18 PM
It's positively uncanny how many times in the past 3-5 weeks I've checked the clock and it's been exactly 11:38 on the dot. (Morning or night.)
I'm the kind of person who writes down the date, time, and phone number when I call customer service, in case I need to refer to it later. I've had to talk to a lot of doctor's offices, insurance companies, and banks lately, and it always seems to be at 11:38. Today, I talked to the hospital billing department at 11:38 and then to a doctor's office at 11:41, but then I looked a little higher up my notes and saw that when I called the same office last Friday it was... 11:38!
And at least three or four times lately when we're getting ready for bed, I'll flip on my phone to see what time it is, and it'll say 11:38. It's weird. When I was a young film geek and excited about George Lucas's in-jokes, I used to buy exactly $11.38 worth of gas sometimes. (This was back when gas was so cheap you could stop the pump on a given penny. Now you'd be lucky to stop it between $11 and $12.) Today, of course, I hate him and all that he stands for (I keed), but 1138 is still following me everywhere!
Sadly, this has never happened once at 1:13.
Monique — Wed, 11/18/09 8:45pm
Hello Malcolm Gladwell!
..."Blink"
Bee Boy — Thu, 11/19/09 12:00am
Are you freakin' kidding me?!
Tonight I finally got around to clicking a Vimeo link Drew e-mailed me last week, and I downloaded the Quicktime version of the Vimeo video (because Vimeo awesomely allows such a thing), and look at the friggin' file name...
I swear, I'm going to wake up with Robert Duvall's shaved, disembodied head in my sheets one of these days.
Bee Boy — Mon, 2/22/10 11:38am
Creepy – it just happened again. Back on the phone with the same hospital billing apartment, and I check the clock to update my notes... blammo.
(I'm low on money right now because of all these doctor bills, but as soon as this is over I'm going to start saving – once I have enough money to make a big donation I'm going to endow a hospital just so I can name it the Schmospital Dospital Hospital.)
Joe Mulder — Mon, 3/1/10 11:51pm
Yay!