With yet another Note to Self entry!

I am a fairly good swimmer, nothing wonderful, but I can get around in a pool.  I can even pass deep water tests, which is a good thing.  As we often have memberships to swim at our Junior High's pool in the winter, and at the community pool in the summer, I have picked up various tricks -- somersaults, flips, backflips, etc.

Well.

I was in a moonwalk/jump house/bounce house thing the on Saturday (at a wedding reception) and decided to try doing a flip.  Obviously, if you are as "athletically challenged" as I am, that is a good place to try doing things like flips.  I mean, how hurt can you get?  You don't have anything to hit into that isn't a layer of air!

I probably would have done fine... except... I forgot... about that little thing called GRAVITY!! 

  <----- behavior of a gravity particle

In theory, I knew about it.  But I forgot that when you're in the pool, the water slows down the rate at which you fall.  Suffice it to say, my timing on my flip was a little off.  With the result that I moved my hands a little too soon, and landed on my head.   <<<<<

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It did not leave me smiling, like  ^ that little blue guy.   

I was rather startled.   

Fortunately, I'm young and healthy and recovered rapidly.  ^_^

Nonetheless, maybe it's a good thing I'm taking Physics this year... maybe I'll learn a thing or two...

Oh yeah, all that reminds me, our hospital puts up the weirdest signs.  There had been one of a guy standing on his head which said "Felt this good lately?"  Personally, I thought it was a kind of strange definition of good, as he looked off his head.  I mean, on his head.  Anyway, it looked like he needed to be stuck in a nice, quiet room with padded walls. 

There was another which said "Don't let wounds slow you down."  I thought that was incredibly BAD advice.  Unless I'm missing something, you really ought to slow down if you have wounds.  *cough cough*  ... wait, that's a story for another time.

And the one which is up and bugging me at the present...  "Everyone loves your new hip."

AHHH!!  It's just so WEIRD!!!

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Yeah, definitely don't bother replying.

oh wow