time: 8:40 am; location: riverside

You can probably guess with the title of this entry that something happened, once again. Well, you'd be right. I was running with my running group yesterday morning, and we were almost done with our 4 mile run. (The farthest I've run to date.) The end of our run has us running down Riverside on the sidewalk towards Congress. Literally 2 minutes away from where we started it happened. There was a manhole cover slightly up and I didn't see it and I tripped! 

I was literally inches away from smashing my face on the concrete when I somehow forward rolled onto my right shoulder into the grass! I don't understand. How am I doing these forward rolls instead of smashing my face? Don't get me wrong, I am glad I'm doing it, I just don't understand how it happens. I'm not thinking, wow, I'm about to loose my teeth, maybe I should roll out of this fall? Whatever, I'm not going to question it. I didn't come out unscathed however, and thank god no one tripped over me and fell. I, of course, fell on my other knee and scratched the crap out of my palms and right elbow.

You know how famous people die in threes? I'm now assuming I will fall in threes. (Crissy, is this true? I know you fall a lot.) I'll let you know when it happens again. I'm sure it will be within the week since that's what happened this time.

time: 6:10 pm, location: casis

Let me begin by letting you know what I am wearing today. I'm wearing a super cute plaid dress and brown wedges. So, Nichole and I stayed late to plan for next week, and while we were planning we realized we forgot to make copies of a few things we need for tomorrow. So we walked over to the fourth grade hall to make said copies. The quickest way to get there is to walk outside the building from our hallway to the other hallway. On our way back we were having a lovely discussion, both of us holding a stack of papers, as well as 10 paper clipped stacks of small pieces of paper for a game we're playing.

Next thing I know my hands are flying in the air, my papers go flying! I fall on my knees and do a forward roll to my back. As I am doing my forward roll I distinctly remember thinking, "wow, my dress is over my head right now." After my forward roll I am laying on the ground outside with my dress up to my waist, panties on display. I start laughing hysterically. Nichole looks down at me laughing hysterically. I look over and my papers are EVERYWHERE! I finally get enough sense to pull my dress down and sit up. My knee at this point it super bloody, my hip hurts, my elbow is bleeding, my wrist hurts, and we are still laughing. Nichole finally asks between laughs how she can help me. I say I have no idea.

Finally I get up and she helps me get all my papers. As we finish the walk to the room I ask what happened, and how ridiculous I looked. Her response, "I have no idea what happened! We were talking and I was looking at you, and the next thing I know you're on your back laughing." Hopefully we picked up all of the game pieces so we can still play the game tomorrow.

I seriously don't remember the last time I actually fell. Can you get workers comp for this?