Ouch.

[sabotabby]

I managed to sprain my ankle. Again. It's the same ankle and I sprained it by doing the same thing: walking down the street. It's not as bad as last time, but this time it was even more humiliating because it happened in the company of my mum, who was shortly joined by a cousin who OMG never runs into her and hey, let's catch up on things while missnegativity is collapsed on the sidewalk in a great deal of pain.

I thought that was kind of exciting, anyway, but when I hooked up with Sara last night, it turned out she had an even better injury story. She'd been leaving the James Joyce (a few blocks away from where I live) and managed to wind up in the middle of a 20-guy fight. One of the guys punched her in the head before someone pulled her to safety. She's okay, no concussion, just a little shaken up. Meanwhile, I'm trying to imagine what a massive fight on Bloor St. must look like -- it's not exactly a violent area of town. Wow. We had a good night despite our respective bruises and met a guy with four nipples.

In another note of LJ-continuity, remember this Gaybortion!? Well, the move went fine, and my friends love the neighbourhood. Apparently they have a splendid view of the city. The other day, that view included another guy jumping off the building next to theirs.

He did not, however, land on an ice-cream truck.

Yes, I asked.

Comments

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I sprained my ankle some time in 2000, and then I kept repetitively pulling muscles in my ankle when I went down the 6 floors of stairs from work. I think that while I would heal from the injuries, my muscles there were a bit tight. So I started doing stretches to warm up my ankles before going down those stairs every night, and after a while I stopped hurting my ankles.

The original injury actually stemmed from simply stepping out the bus in Vancouver.

As for jumping off buildings... The windows in our appartment have security bars that are clearly meant to prevent someone from breaking through the window and falling out. Meanwhile, we have free access to our balcony, which would be a much more obvious jumping point.

[sabotabby]

I'm always stretching my ankles, and you know what my stairs are like. I've yet to hurt myself in any way other than whilst walking down the street not paying attention to where I'm going.

Security bars on windows seem about as useful as the Suicide Barrier on the Bloor St. viaduct. Which is to say not very useful.

[rote.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I asked."

Perfet touch.

[sabotabby]

What's even better is that he knew I was going to ask that.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

that icon is terminally cute.

[sabotabby]

I try.

I think I should take it into the hairdresser next time I go and tell her that at some point, my hair looked like that, and can she please make it look like that again?

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Don't walk on flat surfaces. It's just not safe.

Does Toronto have more than its share of jumpers? It sure seems that way.

[sabotabby]

I don't know. They don't report suicides. It's a fairly gloomy city, though.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

for what it's worth, the average canadian suicide rate is something like 15 per 100,000, and right next door the province of Québec, with 25% of the population, has a rate of 25 per 100,000. So I suspect that Ontario, with some 40% of the population, wouldn't be able to have a rate much above the average.

Of course, they could all be concentrated in Toronto, but somehow I doubt that.

[sabotabby]

That, and you've got Davis Inlet pushing up the average. Ah, statistics.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I was just remembering a couple of urban legends. Apparently the one about the lawyer who was demonstrating the strength of the window in a highrise when the window popped our was true - even though he wasn't an intentional jumper.

[sabotabby]

How very Darwin Awards.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

It's true, too.

While searching for this legend, I also found this one, also true: Moose shoots through woman's car.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I see that you have been using your convalescent time tarting up your icons. Very nice, except the Durutti one is harder to figure out. What is that transparent thing overlapping the figure? Is it a portion of a symbol that I should recognized or just an artistic embellishment?

[sabotabby]

Is it a portion of a symbol that I should recognized or just an artistic embellishment?

You should have recognized it. ;)

It's Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic #34. Another snark at the purer-than-thou anarchists on my part, I suppose.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

WTF, I think that white splotch was his shirt!!

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

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