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This doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I felt like sharing it. For some reason, when I woke up this morning, the joint of my big toe on my right foot completely hurt. It really, really, hurt to bend the toe or move it, and walking was a little painful. Still, I went to school like normal and limped around during my first two classes, History and Chemistry. Then I made it to P.E. I thought we would be playing badminton, which doesn't really involve as much foot movement as some other P.E. activities. But when I got in the gym...
P.E. teacher: We're doing stations today!
Me: Well, crud.
Teacher: Move around the room and do all of the stations. This first station is a jumping station and there are three more of those around the room.
Me: Well, crud.
Teacher: Here, you're doing jumprope!
Me: Well, crud.
Teacher: Here, you're doing lunges!
Me: Well, crud.
Teacher: Here you're doing pushups, here situps, wallsits, jump into the air come back down and do a pushup (what are those called?), jump on and off this really tall box, mountain climbers, then sprint to the other side of the gym and do it again!
Me: ...
Friends: Ruby's cracked!
Me: Well, HOLY *BLEEEEEEEEP*!
Fascinatingly enough, I found out during mountain climbers that repeating the letter "f" over and over is an amazing stress relief. Oh, and I managed to twist my ankle during that.
On the way to English, my rival with a broken foot was moving faster than me. But he has crutches! Crutches! And a cast, I tell you! His backpack is also a good deal lighter than mine! Unfair, I say!
I hobbled around during lunch. Really. Hobbled. And then I went up a really long flight of stairs to get to Japanese. Wow, that was fun! *cheesy grin*
And down the stairs to get to math. And across the whole school. *wider cheesy grin*
Red and I walk home and I was feeling so bad by this point I was going to have Red carry me part of the way. But he had a test to do and he didn't know when he'd be done. So, that was a mile and a half all the way home. With a twenty pound backpack, a badly bruised and twisted ankle, and an aching toe joint.
Did I mention that I twisted the same ankle again on the way home?
Actually, I figured out that my limp is an impressive 3 miles per hour. Kind of useless information, but I'm sure it can come in handy somehow.
So how was your day today?
submitted by Ruby M., age 14, Somewhere
(November 1, 2013 - 5:52 pm)
(November 1, 2013 - 5:52 pm)
My day was better than yours, I can say that. And we actually did the jump-up-in-the-air-do-a-push-up-come-back-down thing as well, but conveniently enough I forgot its name, too. PE is awful for me even without a bruised toe because I'm awful at sports, but luckily we missed a lot of it today because we were loading canned food from our school's Halloween food drive into the bus.
There was also an All Saints Day Mass, in which I was surprised to find that the boys in my grade can actually sing. This is incredibly weird to get my head around.
Oh, and I prefer to say 'gah' multiple times, though it sounds more like "Gah. GAH. Gahhhh. Gagagah." F multiple times works too, though.
(November 1, 2013 - 8:04 pm)
Top!
(November 1, 2013 - 10:12 pm)
That's bad. I'm really sorry for you. I didn't have school yesterday. Those pushup things are called burpees, I don't know why.
(November 2, 2013 - 7:30 am)
I procrastinated most of the schoolday yesterday. I was thinking about my novel. XD Then in the evening, I stayed up til one in the morning throwing cupcakes and glitter at my lovely friends on Pencils to Paper. And doing some writing. But mostly throwing cupcakes and glittter. Actually, I should go write, since I'm procasinating right now. . . .
(November 2, 2013 - 8:44 am)
Oh gosh, sorry Ruby! I can relate. I busted my ankle a few weeks ago when I was running by stepping in a hole. A loud pop, I went down, and it's still bugging me even now. Try not to put a whole lot of weight on it. And even ice it. That'll help.
(November 2, 2013 - 12:46 pm)
I wrote a bit. And some more. Really, other than going to school the only thing I did was write. Which is kind of sad, but, you know.
(November 2, 2013 - 9:06 am)
That stinks.
Was Friday the day you posted this? Because that day was incredibly boring for me.
(November 6, 2013 - 8:56 am)