Awww, damn, Ma--the horse broke his ankle, now he's gotta get shot!

[oneirophrenia]

As if today wasn't just a mindbender with the horrible-papers fiasco, as I was walking out to my car to run out to Wendy's for some cheap-ass grub, I damnear broke my ankle. The same ankle, incidentally, that I whacked up at the Shadyhaus last weekend.

I was crossing through the lawn behind the one building, and there was a thin crust of mucky snow on the ground...so I couldn't really tell that I was headed toward a patch of sloppy mud where some random henchman had been digging the other day for some unknown reason. I didn't realize the mud had the same consistency as peanut butter until my foot sank into it up to the middle of my calf and cracked my ankle something fierce. For all my Pittsburgh Gs who may have wondered what was that terrific, thunderous "MOTHERFUCKER!" that you may have heard rumbling down from the sky about 5:00pm today...well, that was me. MSG'd!

So not only did I spend the rest of the night hobbling around on a sore ankle, but my one pantleg and foot was completely smeared with mud as well. My students in my evening class got a kick out of it, though, so that was kinda nifty. I'm just glad the Mudhole of Doom did not suck my shoe off my foot, though. Because if I'd've had to go fishing for a goddamned show in the morass I would've been Superfly TNT and the Guns of the Navaronne all rolled up into one blazing Croat package.

Ow. I think I'm gonna need to break out the Vicodin for this tonight....At least tomorrow's my day off, so I don't have to go running around the campus or the newspaper.

Comments

[missjoi.livejournal.com]

Man, you have my sympathy- especially since this kind of stuff tends to happen to me. But DAMN- I had to laugh when you said you were lucky the mud didn't suck off your shoe- because the visual is just *too* much for me to handle. Snicker.

And...what is it with these cartoon teddy bears and bunnies? Why aren't they oozing snot or something? :)

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Well, lately, I've been attempting to get in touch with my slightly-less morbid, bloodsoaked side. Few people know this about me (though now, obviously, more will!), but I've collected stuffed animals and cute little things like that since I was a child....Underneath the scabs and scars and the hellish outer surface, I'm just a big ol' softie that loves cute little animals, especially when they're Japanese. Heh.

And, man...like I said, if my shoe *had* come off in the murk, I would've been spittin' and sputterin' like Daffy Duck on crack! it would've been hilarious to look back on, but at the moment, I would've been like Godzilla on speed!

[blackcatbon.livejournal.com]

>Underneath the scabs and scars and the hellish outer surface, I'm just a big ol' softie that loves cute little animals, especially when they're Japanese. Heh<


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[raincrystal.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, I hope you feel better... x_________x;;

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sanrio and San-X all the way!

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear. :) It's hurting a lot worse today, but I can still walk on it....Just annoying, basically. Hell, I'm so used to stumbling around with my knees giving me all manner of grief that anymore I just don't even pay attention to it. My pain threshold is getting to be astronomical.