The Luck of the Draw

I seem to be rather lucky when it comes to winning drawings/raffles.  For example, this past year or two I've won the following:

1.  An ISU sweatshirt blanket (valued at $35) from the monthly S.E.V.E.N. drawing.  S.E.V.E.N. is this program that is run by the Health Promotion and Wellness where you log your points for activities that fall within the seven dimensions of wellness (physical, intellectual, environmental, spiritual, vocational, emotional, social).
2. A sweet "I found the G-spot tank top. The G-spot is... well the website says it is a "portable wellness gazebo that is utilized by Health Promotion and Wellness" but to get to the point, they give out free condoms and sexual safety packets/info and such.  Not in an oppressive or annoying way though. The little gazebo is always moving its location around campus so when you found it you can explain "I found the G-spot!" hahaha. Oh sexual puns.
3. My awesome bike (valued at about $200) from the Earth Day Twitter contest. I like to call him Ed. If you tweeted your Earth Day plans to the ISU Sustainability Twitter account, you were entered into the drawing and I won! woo-hoo. 
4. I feel like there is another item or two that I have won but I can't remember at the moment...

Here is the thing though, I think I win so many drawings because I enter so many drawings.  I mean, if you're entering a large amount of raffles/drawings, you have a much higher change of actually winning them.  Probability is on my side, ya know?

In other news, although this is not an event relating to my "luckiness", I felt very fortunate when I received an e-mail today that three of my pieces of writing (two poems and one essay) are going to be published! I'M GOING TO BE FAMOUS. Just kidding. 
ISU has an online literary magazine called "The Euphemism" that comes out once a semester.  I submitted six pieces just for the hell of it.  I can't believe that half of them were chosen.  Okay, so not a lot of people know about "the Euphemism," especially since it's completely internet based, but still, estoy emocionada! If for some crazy reason teaching doesn't work out for me, I'll just become a writer instead. 

The Self

Today I was doing observation hours at Bloomington High School.  I was a somewhat bored and distracted though.  I wrote this lovely poem instead of taking observation notes like I should have been doing. 

                                           The Self

Yourself

You

The Self

skin and bones

flesh and blood

thoughts and feelings

a frightening and unfathomable compilation

breakable both inside and out

need verses want

restraint verses impulse

no matter how many friends or family

or lovers or classmates you have

in the end it's simply you.

Yourself

The Self

Alone,

with your thoughts.

Alone,

with your emotions.

an infinite steam of inner monologue.

no distinct beginning

and no end in sight.

unfiltered, unrelenting, unconscious

Love yourself

Love your neighbor

but above all

Love Yourself

because neighbors come and go

but The Self,

Yourself,
is the most important person you must know.