Karma Rules

When one has had a humbling experience of extreme, unfair impatience with one's child, Karma sees to it that one will then be required to stay at home the next day with same child, sick.  It is difficult to know whether Karma views this decision as an opportunity for redemption or whether Karma chooses to use her power to toy with mere mortals.  While one is at home, falling farther behind at work, Karma ensures that appointments will be scheduled that will prevent one from eating lunch on Tuesday and teaching 5th period on Thursday.  In terms of 5th period, Karma's end result is to reduce teaching time to 90 minutes for the week rather than the regularly schedule 215 (or so).  In the evening, Karma chooses to resurrect said child's fear of the bathtub (though actually it is a new fear of the drain).  One is reassured that bath theatrics are equal-opportunity employers since one's husband was forced to endure the experience tonight; however, it is a feeble reassurance as one must now confront the fact that a new fear has, in fact, taken hold, and it will render future baths theater of the absurd for quite some time to come.  Karma is a female dog of indiscriminate parentage.

(One finds it difficult but therapeutic to continue to write in the third person.  Doing so continues to reinforce one's knowledge of the complete and utter loss of control over one's life, thus reassuring one that one bears absolutely no control over one's actions.)

Karma does, inevitably, deliver a silver lining.  One expresses extreme gratitude to the Easter Bunny for bringing a dinosaur egg to hatch, for it has provided humor and distraction today. One is extremely thankful for a husband who does not always get it right but got it right today. One is thankful that the ceaseless rain has finally ceased, for it was cold, dreary, and unpleasant.  Above all, one remains thankful and blessed to have the little boy hacking and dripping upstairs in his bed, protected by a tiny owl named B, and proof, above all, that Karma does have her moments.