Hey there...
You know, the Wunderkind told me something about not living this one down, last night just about the time I was running out of steam. My Dungeon of Anime (and dollz) is many things, but comfortably equipped for sitting with one's appendage propped up and iced is not one of those things.
So when I opened the mail this morning and found several nice messages about the post on Beta I was "huh? whaaa?" Thanks, all! Appendage is already a little less puffy this morning, though still very tender.
I love the composite sketch

And actually, you know... that animation isn't all that far from how it looked...
Here was my rendition of it, in a note to Aernath and Hobbywhelmed:
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Guess who fell down went boom on her way to work this morning? I was quite literally just outside the door of the library when my toe caught in a sidewalk crack and down I went. It probably was what, five seconds total?? but it seemed longer.
Catch toe, lose balance.
"Uh oh, I hope I'm not going to fall."
body takes a few frantic flapping steps in an attempt to make the save.
"Not gonna happen, is it. Boy I hope I don't hit that kneecap."
face comes closer to ground... I toss the lunch bag to one side and the purse to the other and attempt to twist/roll...
I'm seriously weirded out by this, in retrospect, because all these things actually did go through my head, and I did consciously try to soften the blow, as it were, by landing on my hip/bewtocks. which is a nicely padded area. Skun my left knee and elbow and my hand just a bit, rolled and klunked the back of my head into the concrete, fortunately not even hard enough to produce an ow.
What was I most distressed about? My damn SKIRT flipped halfway up my body, exposing said large and well padded bewtocks (fortunantely, only to one person and she was a girl). So my immediate concern and injury was to my dignity, and the first thing I did was hastily flip that skirt down.
And then I stood up!
Ow.
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And then I continued with the saga of telling the urgent care people that I did not want to go through Worker's Comp red tape and would they please just LOG ME IN and get me an xray!! "Want me to pay up front? Here's my card!"
Aernath's wonderful response?
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Short trip to the concrete: Five seconds
Even shorter trip to indignity: Skirt flip
Using MasterCard to cut through the red tape: Priceless.
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But Cloud... what's this about a sollid cat? O_o