part of an email from La Mama

''and said she was pretty sure she was going to take the job and we had lo mein from china panda and had two fortune cookies. i opened one and it said IT TAKES GUTS TO GET OUT OF RUTS. so i handed it to beth and said this one is yours. so i opened the other cookie and it said AVOID TAKING UNNECESSARY GAMBLES. is that a mixed message or what? i guess it just shows that life is a toss up.''

I think I can reconcile these two -- notice how the second one qualifies this statement with ''UNNECESSARY'' gambles. So there you go, sometimes you just have to gamble. And when you're in a rut, maybe a gamble is all you got left!