Christmas dinner in traffic, filthy toilets, noisy gymboree, empty credit, car knock, fight with soundman and broken stranger • Could my karma be implying that I did something wrong? The last few days my luck has been bad. Maybe Mercury in retrograde? I don't believe in astrology, and in fact I am not a believer at all, except for a stubborn belief that in the end for some reason it will be okay.

But right now, with the upsetting sequence of events I'm going through, even I'm starting to wonder.