{"id":66,"date":"2006-01-08T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/jaywalking-melon-knees-and-gone-with-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T16:19:25","slug":"jaywalking-melon-knees-and-gone-with-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/jaywalking-melon-knees-and-gone-with-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"jaywalking, melon knees and gone with the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like James Caan in Misery<\/em>. <\/p>\n

It’s cold. It’s winter. I’m crippled and drugged. A crazy person keeps popping their head around the corner with soup and crackers threatening to do me in<\/em> if I don’t ‘hurry up and finish already’. <\/p>\n

OK. I lied. The stranger’s in my mind. But the crippled and drugged part is true. My leg is elevated above my head and there’s nothing to do but read, write and sleep.<\/p>\n

I jaywalked across a dual carriage way on New Years Eve and tore my knee apart for the effort. (Ok, I sorta fell down some steps too. But it was the crosswalk that did it.)<\/p>\n

I’ve been hit by cars twice in the last five years (I’m not EVEN joking). Not my fault. At all. I blame it on rush hour madness and stupid drivers who think it’s OK to hit the gas (and any pedestrian in the way) at sight of a yellow light – even though people are still on the crosswalk and green’s a good two seconds behind. <\/p>\n

Yep. Twice. And never got a scratch. Then last Saturday I stepped onto a sidewalk the wrong way and now my knee looks like a big fat melon. Did I mention it hurts. Bad. <\/p>\n

The bite of it all is that I just got back from two weeks Christmas holiday. And now I have to take time off because I can’t find the disabled access at the train station and have to scoot up departmental steps on my rear (don’t ask). I called my boss this evening to let her know. Leave a message on Sunday night – empty office and all that. She answers the phone. Now that’s devotion brother. <\/p>\n

So I wait to see what the good Doc says tomorrow morning when Uncle Bernard’s cane and I hobble into his surgery. I call my trainer and find out if the aerobics nut (her words, not mine) can do an hours worth of upper body and core only for the foreseeable future. I let the ladies in the office know I’ll be back as soon as I can walk up an incline. I take a double dose of ibuprofen for the knee. And use the time to finish this damn book. <\/p>\n

Margaret Mitchell did it. Why can’t I? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like James Caan in Misery. It’s cold. It’s winter. I’m crippled and drugged. A crazy person keeps popping their head around the corner with soup and crackers threatening to do me in if I don’t ‘hurry up and finish already’. OK. I lied. The stranger’s in my mind. But the crippled and drugged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}