I don’t buy into omens — bad or otherwise. However, I think it’s a bad sign that my fortune cookie recently didn’t include a fortune. Does that mean that I don’t have any luck at all? I hope not — although the black cat that walked in front of my car the other day probably isn’t a good sign.

So despite signs to the contrary, I think things are starting to look up. I’ve got a couple of meetings coming up and I hope that those will be productive. And despite nothing solid coming out of an earlier meeting, the guy said I did “reasonably well” and “above average” on a very long test. Woo-hoo!