Synchronicity

In the “it’s a small world” cat­e­gory, DH got an email yes­ter­day from his daugh­ter.? She’d posted some of the pic­tures from our wed­ding on her MySpace page, and had got­ten a mes­sage from one of her friends:? “Hey, I think I know your stepmother.”

Yep.? My stepdaughter’s friend B is a long-​time co-​worker at the col­lege, hav­ing started as a stu­dent assis­tant in the Math depart­ment shortly after I started teach­ing there.? She became the depart­ment sec­re­tary, trans­fer­ring to the Sci­ence depart­ment shortly before I moved to the Busi­ness depart­ment (which became the Business/​Computer Sci­ence depart­ment).? We used to live not too far from each other, so dur­ing the last few years of the starter mar­riage she would cat-​sit for me when we were all out of town.

I knew that B reg­u­larly attended the Geor­gia Renais­sance Fes­ti­val, but of course a lot of peo­ple do that.? Why would I ever think that she and my step­daugh­ter had con­nected sev­eral years back (per­haps even before DH and I met), as fans of the same band?

Just another odd coin­ci­dence in my life!