How does that happen?!

Life is just darn amusing sometimes...amusing in the ironic sense. 

This past week for example.  For my chemistry lab there was a final report due on two Tuesdays ago.  I got a good head start on it, but the night before it was due I panicked, thinking I had forgotten a significant portion of work on it and consequently stayed up till 3am working on it.  I didn't get the brilliant idea to email my lab professor until 1am, asking if I was doing the right thing in adding in the extra work or not.  The next morning I discovered from the professor's email that I had, indeed, gone over and beyond what I was intended to do.  Although I had already turned in my lab report to his door, I replied back that I would hand in the corrected report at that lab period.  Fast forward to this past Tuesday.  As he prepared to hand back reports, he said that he needed to see my lab partner and me before he could hand it back to us.  So, at the end of class, we finally talked to him.  It turns out that at some point he had misplaced my lab partner's report she had done individually.  But, he had both of my reports, and didn't realize they were both from me...he initially had thought I had turned in one, and my lab partner had turned in the other.  Seeing as how they were both eerily the same (for obvious reasons...they were both mine, just with a little different working on equations), he thought we had basically plagiarized each other word for word.  So I had a heart attack when I saw that one was graded as a 62% and the other as a 66%.  But then, he revealed that he HAD found my lab partner's lab report somehow tucked away in an organic chemistry stack of papers.  All he really needed was an explanation from me why he had two lab reports from me.  After I re-explained to him my emails and he remember the situation, he added back the points he had taken away for mistaken plagiarism and I received a 98%.  Phew.  My heart definitely skipped a beat.

Again, another situation in chemistry lab.  Last week, unbeknownst to me ahead of time, we were taking an ACS chemistry test...basically a nation-wide type of chemistry exam.  If we did well on it, we could choose to use that grade for our final exam grade in lecture and not have to take our final exam.  Fine and dandy...till we started the test.  The test is designed to test students who have taken chem I and chem II in the past school year.  Seeing as I have not taken chem I since my first semester of college, I hardly remembered a lot of the basic information about the arrangement of molecules and basic information about atoms (embarrassing, I know...).  I wrote off the test in the back of my mind and just awaited hearing from my teacher that I had done rather awful on it.  Tonight I got an email that I did just fine, I got a 91%, and I could decide to use that for my final exam grade. How. does. that. happen??? (as a side note, I haven't decided yet whether or not to use the 91%...I kind of want to shoot for a higher grade than that.  Am I weird?  Yes, maybe.  Good thing that's already been established)

God has such a sense of humor.  I just wish He would warn me ahead of times sometimes.  I guess I would miss the punchline, though...