in which cleaning day tries to kill me...twice

attempt #1
so today was cleaning day for founders. which consists of throwing everything on top of the bed to vaccuum and then hiding it all as best as possible. well, i had about 10 books piled up on the bed and was trying to take the large, metallic happy birthday sign (which is about 2 months old) down. to do this i had to stand on my book-covered bed and balance in between the range of various kinds of things that were cluttering it. well, i got it down and as i turned to step off my bed, i lost my balance. i stepped off the bed (which is on risers) and landed on the side of my foot and all of my weight landed on my ankle. unable, at this point, to catch myself, i crashed down to the floor. my whole right side is sore. my one roommate was in the room but the other one heard the crash of my body on the floor and came running in to find me sprawled out on the floor holding my ankle and muttering profanities through clenched teeth. i was soon able to walk, though, and continued to clean the room. (much more carefully)

attempt #2
a few hours later, i had just finished my hall chore of wetsysteming the bathrooms. cleaning day had not been kind to me since my little attempt at flight. i have three large scrapes on my knuckles from trying to open the stupid windows to clean the outsides. after finishing the bathrooms, i went into one to wash the chemicals off my feet and legs. however, instead of sitting on the bathroom counter to do this (it was wet) i decided to place one foot at a time in the sink and wash it off. i was fine for the first one, however, when i placed the wet foot back on the floor and went to lift the other up, i ended up flying backwards with quite a few not very nice things running through my mind. crashing, again, to the hard bathroom floor, i began, immediately to laugh at myself. allison comes in and after asking if im okay and me yelling through the laughter that i was fine...just fine, asks if i had fallen again. my roommates commented that they had heard the large crash of my entire body once again hitting the floor, but had thought to themselves that it couldnt have been me falling again. we spent the next fifteen minutes laughing at my complete and utter lack of balance today.

so if you see me limping across campus, yeah, thats why.