Friday morning, I woke up feeling awful. The virus had worked its way through my family, so I knew it was coming. Imagine a bad flu without the stomach symptoms: a tremendous headache and body aches, and some weird disorientation.
Were I still working at the library, I'd have called in sick without a second thought. But this is law school - there are no sick days in law school (or so I'm told). Anyway, I drove to school (about an hour and a half later than usual), stumbled to the library, and very slowly made my way though my notes for Civil Procedure at 11:00. I made it though class without incident, but I was burning up by the end of it. Class ended at 11:50
Here's where the alternate universe stuff comes into play. Watch the timing.
I really, really considered skipping my second class (Torts) and going home. I spent that last ten minutes of CivPro making the decision to stay. But it was close.
After CivPro, a group of us went to the Intermezzo for lunch. While I was waiting for my sandwich, about 25 minutes past the hour, the song "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" started running through my head. I was humming it when they delivered the sandwich I only ate a few bites of.
After lunch, I worked through Torts from 1-2:15, and instead of hitting the library to study afterwards, I went straight to the car, and headed straight home. My iPod was set to shuffle everything.
The walk from the library to the car takes about 10 minutes. About 25 minutes into the drive, what should come on but the Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You". THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES AFTER I MADE THE DECISION TO LEAVE SCHOOL. Had I left early, as I considered, the song would have come on almost exactly when it spontaneously popped into my head in the Intermezzo! It's proof! There was a parallel universe created when I decided to stay at school instead of leaving, and the song crossed over to provide me evidence. Perhaps, even, to tell me that I made the right choice, or that the choice I made was significant enough in some way to cause a universal rift.
I plan on publishing a paper on this, if someone wants to volunteer the physics. But the facts speak for themselves; res ipsa loquitur as we discussed in Torts class that day.
I would still have known that if I had skipped class, so the quality (however you might judge it) of this little post is probably not the parallel universe split issue.
Lorin | September 1, 2008 5:02 AM
This is good!
...and considering that I often have the entire Monkees catalog running simultaneously through my head, I wonder how many parallel universes I stumble my way through every day.
Yes, this is my favorite Shadowbot post ever.
halfb8ked | September 2, 2008 10:03 PM
But did you Turn Left?