Way to start the semester
It can be cool sometimes when you hurt yourself doing something exciting, daring or just unusual -- like skydiving or rockclimbing. One time my friend Sonja broke her wrist falling out of a dive bar in the Village. Seriously -- one minute in the bar, next minute lying on the ground outside a badly marked emergency door. Painful, but it made a great story later.
The only other time I've broken a bone, it was my ankle while skateboarding. The story of that jump -- which was really never as high or far as I made it sound later -- got me through a bijillion sympathetic inquiries from old ladies shopping at the bookstore where I worked that summer. "Well, you should have seen it ..."
So you can imagine my disappointment at the ludicrously mundane way I managed to break these fingers -- tripping over the exit gate in Lot P. But I've been thinking ... perhaps I could tell people it was a Halo-related injury instead? Yeah, that sounds good: I broke them playing rocket launchers on Foundation ... took a nasty fall off one of the air chutes, you should have seen my Master Chief bounce! Or maybe it was snipers in Burial Grounds ... hmmm.
Many thanks to everybody for the super nice emails and IM's -- now that you know the real story, I just want to caution you all to watch your step in those virtual parking lots!!