premonition

I have a sinking feeling that the answer is going to be 'no'.

Von and I had a memorable conversation a few years ago about how all of us are screwed because we used up our quota of good fortune way too early - getting (relatively) good grades, making into reputable schools. Sooner or later, he said, it has to run out, and as we process into adulthood, I fear that these prognostications are, indeed, coming to pass. As long as we were in school, we were invincible, we felt guaranteed of a fairy-tale ending; now it's joining the line for handbaskets and being pointed the way to the big guy with horns.