2012 is... the penny project

"Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you have good luck."

Ever since i heard that I wondered why people did not just leave their pennies around on the street for other people to have good luck  I mean, they are barely worth anything anyway. You might as well find a good cause for them. So I started collecting all my pennies so one day I could spread the love and happiness of good luck in big numbers. And what better day to spread good luck than on Friday the 13^th? So today I went out with my pockets filled with almost 50 pennies. I made my way to the city centre passing the Parkinson steps and I walked back crossing Millennium Square, passing the gym. Whilst doing that, I left a trail of pennies. On the ground, in the sand, on walls, on ledges and on poles. I had to do it all without people noticing. Because having someone following me with a “you dropped something” would be quite lame for a penny. Also, it might come across slightly strange to be throwing pennies around on the street. But the whole thing made me feel like I was Amelie (who is also a rather strange character, so I guess the aspect of being strange stays). I succeeded (at least I hope so) to drop most of my coins unnoticed, except for one guy looking around in confusion after hearing the sound of the dropping coin, luckily he could not figure out what it was. I like to think that I gave many people a lucky day now, or whenever the pennies will be found. If you happen to find one, I think your task is to give it to someone else so both of you get good luck. Please do so. It’s exam period and almost hand-in day for essays. And some people are desperately applying for jobs (and my some people, I mean myself). Those people can use all the luck they need! 

My lucky moments today:

- I found the best skirt EVER but it didn't have a tag. I turned out to be the last one in the store and was a size S. Well, my bum is really not a size S (at least, not in the last 10 years). But magically the skirt fits me. More magically, the price tuned out to be 1 pound (no typo!). See, even pool and jobless people can buy great clothes. 

- It was very nice and sunning during my morning run. Unfortunately it was still freezing cold, but hey, you can;t have it all. After all, it's still winter. 

My not so lucky moments:

- I missed my phone interview for the summer language camp job. I spoke to them and apparently they tried to call me yesterday. But my phone did not have reception in my flat. So now we need to reschedule. Again. Damn not existing signal.

- I did not manage to get a hold of the person who was going to call me about an interview for a library job. He very possibly did call me, but in that case I had no reception once again. Time to get this phone sim-unlocked and get back to the old provider.