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It’s been an odd week.

Earlier this month I returned to my Real Job after a six-week absence and managed to work an entire four days before getting sick and being told by the doctor to stay home. So I missed four days of work. I came back on Monday and have worked four days this week. Today will be the fifth day of working, as long as I can break the four day cycle that has come into existence. I’m a little worried that I’m gonna get hit by a truck before I make it safely into the office this morning.

And it’s pretty weird that it was more difficult for me to catch up this week after only four days than it was originally to catch up after six weeks. I don’t get it.

It’s also been a week of coincidences.

**On Sunday I posted here about Cary Elwes not looking the same as he did in The Princess Bride and then a couple of days later, the blog Talking Moviezzz writes about the 20th anniversary of The Princess Bride. Twenty years already!! I guess that explains what I wrote about.

**On Monday, I posted here about Brittany Snow being honored by the Gasparilla Film Festival in February and then the next day local film critic Steve Persall posted the same news on his blog. That’s not the coincidence, because news is news and multiple blogs will write on the same topic or share the same info. No, the co-inky-dink is that Persall posted the exact photo of Snow that I came thisclose to posting here. After looking at several photos, I narrowed it down to two pics…thought long and hard…couldn’t decide…realized I was spending way too much time deciding….and posted one. And Persall posted the other one.

**The writers and readers of a local blog I write for are getting together tonight. And so are the writers and readers of a local website I write for. Tonight.

Months and months — years? — of sitting at home and now I have two events to attend in the same night. I know, I know, spend some time at one event and some time at the other…easy solution, quit my whining. That’s what I’m going to do. It’s just that both of these get-togethers are events where I want to spend every minute there, to be the first one to arrive and the last one to leave.

Unless there’s some incredible time manipulation/cloning/virtual reality device invented and perfected by 5 p.m. today, I’m planning to go here first for a couple of hours and then head here.

**Speaking of writing for local websites, my FANGRRL column over at CrazedFanBoy.com last week was about the fall TV season so far. I griped a little bit about how disappointed I’ve been in NBC’s new show Bionic Woman. So guess what happened next? (Hint: it involves a coincidence.) Yesterday local media critic Eric Deggans posted on his blog his analysis of what is wrong with Bionic Woman.

I told you it was an odd week. If only I could use this new superpower of mine for the good of humanity. Or at least my own personal gain.

I’ll give it a try:

I am officially posting, here and now, that no one in the world will go hungry ever again and that Britney Spears will always wear underwear. (This is the “good for humanity” part, but I must confess that both of these would make me happy and Spears really needs some undies.)

Also, I will win the biggest lottery jackpot in history, be able to eat whatever I want without gaining a pound, and age gracefully. (This, of course, is the “personal gain” portion, although you could make the argument that some of this might also benefit humanity.)

I’ll let you know how it goes.