okay, this is really, really weird…

So I keep thinking I’m done with this thing.  But something really odd happened at work today that I wanted to mention.  Actually, going back to Friday, I forgot to mention something…Kathleen, the co-worker who showed me around was actually born in Canton, OH, the same city I’m from.  (back when I worked for USDA, I had lots of co-workers from OH but since Virginia and Ohio are so close to one another it’s not that suprising).  Here in Oregon, I was definitely surprised to find someone so soon from my hometown.  But it gets stranger.

I was talking to a different co-worker today that it turns out that her parents are from…you guessed it…Canton, OH!!!  Oh but it gets stranger still.  Her parents actually went to the same high school I did.  In fact, it’s the same high school that my parents, many aunts and uncles and my grandparents went to.  In fact, it’s possible that one of her parents graduated from high school with my Aunt Marilyn.  What were the odds of that????  

One last thing….you may remember that back in Thailand I read a couple of books written by women who had survived the killing fields in Cambodia.  Well, it turns out one of my new co-workers is also a survivor.  While definitely a horrible experience, it sounds like what she experienced was nothing like what the book authors went through.  My new co-worker acutally knows one of the book authors – they went to college together in the US after escaping from Cambodia.