Today in serendipity

[muckefuck]

I slept badly and woke up in the wee hours with a stomachache. It subsided later, but I still used it as an excuse to come in a bit later so I was able to see off Mom. It was bright and overcast at Loyola but became darker and darker the further north we traveled until it became obvious we were heading into a thunderstorm. Drops began to spatter the window as we neared my stop. I hit the ground running to the accompaniment of a tremendous KRACK-A-THOOM! and reached the shelter of the arcade just as the big drops began falling.

The rain had stopped by lunchtime. I was walking to a cafeteria on campus and the route I was taking reminded me of fall two years ago when I regularly went up with my student assistant to one of the branch libraries to work on materials being sent off-site. I hadn't heard from him in about a year and I idly wondered what had become of him. Not half an hour later I was standing at the railing tossing breadcrumbs to the sparrows when I heard someone say my name: the same student assistant, now working for a start-up while he finishes his degree.