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Thursday, 31 March 05 :: i broke the fall.

i was gleefully riding from surata tofu, its tofu day - $1.00lb bring your own container- over to calc this afternoon, thinking 'yeah! i'm ahead of time, i'll get there 10 min early to solve s's email problems!' i take a nice curvy, fun shortcut through the park. i glance over -- hey, half naked guy sure is liking this sun, how nice!

i see the puddle, i'll just ride through it..

..........slide.

..............oh fuck!
.................shit.
.................. this hurts.
....................oh fuck. no helmet!
.......................did i break anything?
..........................i'm sopping wet!
...............................nothing broken. damn, that hurts.
..................................sob.

didn't get it? i crashed my bike.
ps. i do NOT recommend going without a helmet. one would think i learned that lesson 7 years ago, after breaking a crash with my head (with helmet) and then my shoulder and arm. but no. i forgot it. maybe x2 i'll get it? really, i got off waaaaaaaaaaaaay lucky. a skinned and bumped elbow, a bump on my knee, a sorta sore shoulder, and muddy clothes.

oh, and of note. earlier today, i had gone on a semi-long bike ride. it was stupendous and as i rode into alton-baker park, what was in front of me was a field of daisies and little purple flowers. goddess. just wonderful. relaxing. yes, i laid down in the flowers. and that ride was soooooooo needed.

posted by brooke at March 31, 2005 09:17 PM

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Owie! I hope you're not sore later. And I'm glad it wasn't too bad.

posted by: chasmyn at March 31, 2005 11:24 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.