Diviner of the Grove

 This happened back when I was still a devout Christian. I'm not a Christian anymore - I don't believe in the deity of Christ and I don't participate in Christian traditions - but I do still believe in the same God that I had a relationship with then. It was junior or senior year of high school. I was starting to really look into colleges and majors. I wanted to major in creative writing, because that was one of my favorite things to do in the world. My only worry was that it wasn't a very steady source of income. But I was a high-schooler, and less worried about that lol My second choice of career would have been an interior designer, if that gives you some idea of the pie-in-the-sky ideas I had back then! Anyway. My show choir went on this long trip - we were originally supposed to go to Toronto to sing in a choir competition, but then SARS happened. So we curtailed the trip and only went as far as Lake Erie, then Niagara, then back down to Watkins Glen, and home agai...

 I've been trying to go through my life lately and remember strange and supernatural things that happened to me that I have since forgotten or dismissed. It's part of reteaching myself to believe in the mystical. I was trying to think the other night of a situation where I predicted the future. And I thought of one. At least, I think I predicted the future. I also immediately averted it, so I have no way of knowing. This was in college, my junior year. At my school we had a tradition called Senior Night, which occurred the night before the last day of classes. The students would kind of run wild on campus that night - party on the green, "decorate" profs' offices, etc. Some friends and I were hanging out in one of the academic buildings, which of course was otherwise never open at that hour of the night, and were exploring a bit. We went up to the 3rd floor (top floor) and noticed a ladder attached to the wall that we'd never paid any attention to before, lead...