serendipity

Yesterday I went to the library because I was almost out of things to read at the gym. When I got there it was unexpectedly closed, which was annoying, but someone had kindly left a big box of books for people to take and I found The Secret History, which I've been meaning to read for ages.

Today started off suckily, but I'm not going to dwell on that, except to say that I was very tempted to give the day up as lost and just do all the fun errands I wanted to get done (going to the inconvenient Target for curtains, trekking to the far-away sporting goods store to find ice skates, going to the gym). Instead, I reminded myself that I had to get my star because the ice skating was meant to be a reward, so I went to lab and did my experiment. While I was waiting for something to incubate, I checked craigslist for ice skates and found a posting for a pair that were half a size smaller than my shoe size. I emailed anyway, because I'm not sure how skates compare to shoes and the person said she usually wore the same size as me. I wasn't sure I'd even be able to get to where she lived to try them on, but it turned out she lived right next to the inconvenient Target! I somehow managed to finish my experiment (I'm not going to dwell on the further suckiness that arose there, either), go to the gym just in time before it closed at 7 for the holiday and get to inconvenient Target, discover that the skates fit perfectly (and she'd just relisted them at a reduced price because they didn't sell before), get my curtains and get back on a bus that was just arriving. The skates are so pretty, too. They're purple and grey, with matching blade guards, and they're all comfy and padded and thinsulate lined.

I just realised that I haven't signed up for the class yet and it could potentially be full, but everything else has worked out so nicely, so I'm sure it'll be fine.