Carly was bitterly unhappy. In fact, at the moment she was close to tears, which in recent months really did not take much prompting. In spite of everything she did, all her hard work and diligence, it seemed the Universe simply did not want her to succeed. She was smart, organized, and motivated, but to her it seemed the Universe continually conspired against her. The primary example of this, in her opinion, was simply t...