Calendars flick in and out of existence

hey i just started having the disappearing calendars problem, but my calendars do actually exist in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal... wheni open ical, the list is empty, then the calendars all show up (although colored wrong..?) then they disappear again. sometimes they will show up again, then disappear again.
any ideas? why might this happen?

bumping this.
still having this issue, the app opens blank, then the calendars load, then they all disappear. i saw other threads on disappearing calendars, somebody posted a macfixit solution, but it was something from the pro version of mac fixit and i didn't feel like shelling over $30 for one possible workaround...

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