Currently residing about 80 miles from the Helen Keller Birthplace in Ivy Green, Alabama, I found this global branding of sunglasses using a blind person’s name an interesting enigma: how many people in China know who Helen Keller is?
Do you?
You should.
But is she more important a phenomenon than tardigrade egg survival in the rigours of space travel?
Time to read through my daily list of friends’ blog postings for other gems. Example:
Friday the thirteenthby effimai |
I’m planning to stay in the house today as I’m not saying I’m superstitious BUT I had enough bad luck last year without adding black-cat-walking-under-ladders-breaking-mirrors shit aswell.
I don’t want to believe in it, and on a normal day if I stubbed my toe while rushing round to get ready I would silently swear every swear word I knew and then get on with my day. But if it was Friday the thirteenth, earlier when I did just that, it was just so so typical and expected because it was this day that it happened.
I don’t really understand the whole superstition thing especially with salt. If you spill the salt you have to spill it more by throwing it over your shoulder. Therefore making a lot more mess. Also you’re not meant to put new shoes on a table. I often, very often buy new shoes but I don’t have a table so its all ok now. The black cat thing I don’t believe in, because if you’re driving a car at 70mph and a cat crosses the road, the cat will be dead. So it will be the cat’s bad luck.
One of my friends when we were younger was walking to school with me and she avoided stepping on every crack in the pavement the whole mile walk. There was a couple of paving slabs that were so broken she had to jump over them. While jumping over them she fell and broke her ankle in two places. So obviously has the worst luck ever.
SO today I am going to avoid the outside world (And not JUST because i’m hungover, really hungover) but because bad things may happen. But the good luck charms are always worth looking for. Grab a four leaf clover, try and get a seven year warranty on a mirror and travel back in time to meet a chimney sweep.