Friday the 13th--A Semi-Embarrassing Blast from the Past

The Intersection
By Chris Mooney
Jan 13, 2006 12:23 PMNov 5, 2019 10:11 AM

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This Friday the 13th, I'll be sleeping in, then getting some work done, and hopefully taking it easy in the evening. It wasn't always so. Back in college I used to party on these days, making a point of floutting all kinds of hoary old superstitions, and (at least theoretically) buying myself an eternity of bad luck in the process.

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