and the ground will welcome me like a sister

[rmd]

it's nice to know i still remember how to fall correctly.

on the other hand, wow, i'm a klutz.

i was walking over to mad oyster studios for somerville open studios today and caught my foot on the edge of a pothole or uneven patch of pavement as i was wandering across the street. i lost my balance, flailed a bit and started to fall forward, and then, at some microcode level, realized that i couldn't recover and just executed a front-fall. i fell forward, breaking my fall with bent arms, palms out, executing a pretty okay front fall, all things considered. i *didn't* try to break my fall with arms stiff, and my elbows and wrists and shoulders are all fine. i've got some minor scraping on the heels of my hands and somehow managed to bruise my shin (?? maybe i landed on a high patch of pavement there?).

i think my pride was hurt worst of all. which is really a good way to end up.

Comments

[lyricae.livejournal.com]

Ouchies! I'm glad you didn't do more damage, but sorry that you fell at all.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Pride goeth because of the fall...

Glad you didn't really injure any rmd bits, as that would suck.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

eeek! glad you didn't hurt yourself. hate those localized attacks of high gravity.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

It's astonishingly easy to break things when you're no longer 17. Glad you're unsprained and unfractured.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

It's astonishingly easy to break things when you're no longer 17.

sadly true.

[keren-s.livejournal.com]

Don't claim it as a fall, it was performance art (part of open studios outdoors)! ;-) Glad you're ok, though.