You've Gotta Be Kidding Me...

Ever have one of those odd coincidences that comes outta nowhere, and is just too bizarre to let go, that you have to tell someone? Just had one:

I bought a beautiful, hard-cover graphic novel called Local, a little while ago. I started reading it, but decided to shelf it for a bit, and push through finishing Watchmen first. I accomplished that a couple of hours ago.

I was sitting here, watching the fourth season of Buffy, and was on an episode where her new college roommate was driving her nuts. She was labeling the food, insisting on logging calls made, etc.

Anyways, I paused it to go outside to smoke, and since I'd just finished Watchmen, decided to grab Local and take it out with me. I open up to where my bookmark was, and I had apparently stopped on a part where Megan (main character) was freaking out to some friend, about how her roommate was driving her nuts, logging and scheduling all activities and chores to be done, and labeling and measuring her food!

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It's just insane when little things like that happen. I'm watching more than one episode of Buffy today, and stopping during any other episode (or even a different part of that same episode), and it would have just been kind of funny to spot the similarities. As it was, I happened to stop just at the place where, opening up and reading Local sent me spinning a bit, because it felt like continuing the story I was already on. Just....weird.

It was a little like one of the moments in NeverEnding Story, when reading the story started crossing into Bastian's world. Only....without the cool biographical (or autobiograpical) twist.