Chiapas

I wrote this last semester and just got to posting it now:

i just had a weird moment of synchronicity.... This morning i was hanging out at Sunergos, and some customers, the baristas and myself were talking about Chiapas, Mexico (because we were all enjoying that particular brew...mmm!). We did some internet research and found out it is a coffee-growing region of Mexico.

Just now, as I was researching for my anthropology class on a TOTALLY unrelated topic (class in America), an article about coffee growers in Chiapas turned up on an article search. I had previously never known that Chiapas grew coffee; and now, TWICE in one day....

V for Vendetta, Elizabeth and M I T

So, I think it might be one of my unofficial New Year's Resolutions to try to post more "coincidences." My trouble is that I rarely write them down for later posting as they happen, so I end up forgetting them by the time I'm online again. Here's one my friend, Elizabeth, sent me back in November.

I just wanted to tell you something - so, this weekend late at night, I caught a large part of the middle (I think) of V for Vendetta on TV, which I haven't seen. Then, this morning as I'm walking through the labyrinth of MIT buildings, I see all these V face stickers stuck on posters, the head of the woman representing the women's bathroom, etc. I thought, well, that's a coincidence. Then I realized it was November 5 yesterday, and that's probably why - and THEN I remembered in the movie how they kept talking about there not really being any coincidences.

The November 5th thing is Guy Fawkes' Day, for those of you who are not anglophiles. And for those who ain't seen the movie or read the comic, the character V dresses up in a Guy Fawkes costume to perpetrate his anti-fascist schemes.

Pretty weird. But monstrously so.