Ow

Saturday, January 13 2007
12:51

Well the day is getting off to a good start. I just fell down the stairs. The bottom 5 or 6 of the outside stairs here are covered with ice. They've been that way since Thursday, but they were slipperier than expected on my way down. As soon as I put my weight on the first one, my feet flew out and I landed on my back. At which point I slid down, bouncing on each stair, until I got to the ground. The sounds coming out of my mouth were great, something like that gurgling noise that Schwarzenegger makes in the movies when his character is undergoing some sort of trauma. When I got to the bottom, all the muscles in my lower back and gut were locked up, it took a good 30 seconds of sitting there with some directed attention to relax them. I was a bit surprised after that how easy it was to get up and walk away. I'll probably be sore in a couple hours though.

I sent an email to property mgmt. suggesting that it might not be a bad idea to scrape the ice off. I might do it myself, but I don't really have any tools that would work.

Meanwhile, it's snowing lightly outside. Slept in this morning, forgoing the earlier parts of continued renovation at the performance space. My later plans were then cancelled, due to bad road conditions. So, turns out to be a "none of the above" sort of day.