tigertail in new york

Aside from being a great Stevie Wonder track, very superstitious describes my illogical, irrational belief in all kinds of jinxes, hexes, weird tricks of fate, karma, feng shui, curses, evil eyes, santeria and superstitions.

I won't walk under ladders, I throw salt over my left shoulder if I spill some and I truly believe that if I'd managed to curse my thieving tour guide in Vietnam for seven generations, he and his family really would have suffered. I tend to leave black cats out of it tho' - cos I like kitties ;^)

I know all this behaviour can't be rationally explained. But I've never been a conventionally logical or rational person. One of those personality profile things you do once described me as having my own internal logic and belief systems that could be added to and subtracted from as the need arose, without causing any kind of conflict, doubt or loss of faith. I think it was incredibly accurate. And I've been to a whole lot of different places in the world and seen things with my own eyes that can't be scientifically or rationally explained either.. so there you go..

So I'd been feeling like maybe the universe was a little against me - two jobs lost, one guy I'm dating being slack about returning my phone calls, none of my hustling for work coming to fruition and a general sense of malaise. I wondered what it was I'd overlooked - why was my nasib, my fate, so bad at the moment?

Then I remembered that Chinese New Year and come and gone, and suddenly thought that maybe the feng shui pig I'd had attached to my wallet from last year was too strong in the year of the Pig. I was down near Canal Street, and so suddenly I was on a mission to find a replacement for this year. I had to dodge sellers of fake handbags, perfume, "designer" watches, but finally I found a little store selling what I was looking for - a rabbit for this year, because I'm a Tiger.. I can explain it all if you want, as it was once explained to me, but just trust me on this one :^)

Literally half an hour after swapping them over, I got a call from a guy I'd met a few months back in a networking situation, asking if I'd be interested in taking on a Head of Department (read Manager) role on an independent feature, and then the next day I was asked to come in for an interview with a different production company as well.

So - in a complete whirlwind turn of events, I had two interviews in one day; worked another one-off freelance job in a slightly different, more varied role than before, and I've just started working on the feature!

I'm also having drinks this weekend to celebrate my (belated) B'day and 6 months in the city, with some of the great people I've met since moving here..

So things looking up a little - maybe due in part to a little jade rabbit...

Posted by Ness on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 10:06 PM | Permalink