Can be created by placing two specific scenes within a short duration, as such:

Background Setup: An all-around bad day. I mean, I have a solid interview with a splendidly nice girl, but I also get my ass whomped on the first mini-critique in travel writing. That is, I'm read by a fellow with an opposite writing style from me [heading-to-Hemingway sparsity], so we just kinda look blankly at each other... which I maintain, but he doesn't: he tells me he received "no sense of place" from my piece, which is a little disillusioning in a class about place.

Event 1 - That Night: I get home after this, feeling a tad dejected and blue, and there on the table sits a letter from the Art Institute notifying me that they have cut my grant by $1,150 because I'm only taking four classes and not five... even though both are considered full time.

Intermediate Action//The Next Day... Not Exactly Tension Building, but in a way, Suffused with the Question of How I'm Going to Save My Ass From Financial Plight & Flight: I get offered a job, take it. Go grocery shopping, eat it. Computer calls, write it.

Event 2 - That Night Same Time as Previous Night: My mum calls and says she's accidentally opened my mail and I've recieved a fishing-retro from 1 year ago... to the tune of $1,117.

Question Generated: Am I alone in thinking that a $33 dollar discrepancy points to divine intervention? Or is this 'just' really really speedy Karma?