Fell down went boom. And also, Yuletide?

[dorinda]

ONE THING: Soooooo what happened is, a couple days ago I sprained my ankle. I was trudging home with a million other worker ants, took a bad step somewhere among the terrible uneven concrete across the street from my workplace, and BLAMMO I and my stuff were sprawled all over the road. In the rain. With a bunch of people standing over me.

Ugh. Sometimes I think the secondary embarrassment is almost neck-and-neck with the actual ankle pain. (But then I have a flashback to the terrible noise my ankle ligament made, and I stop thinking that.)

It took a couple minutes for the initial pain to subside enough for me to tell it wasn't broken, and then the kindly bystanders gathered my belongings, hoisted me up, and put me into a cab. I've been Resting/Icing/Compressing/Elevating like a mofo, although unfortunately I've also had a long couple of workdays since then, one of which was twelve hours long.

On the bright side, it could have been SO much worse. With a good Ace bandage and care in moving around, plus UberXs/cabs to and from work, I managed my workdays okay, and it's looking much better and increasing in mobility. I've had much worse sprains in my day, with crutches and whatnot, and I'm grateful this wasn't one of those.

Still no fun, though. And I have another very demanding workday coming up later this week, probably 13 hours, with a lot of standing and moving around. So I'll be RICEing all week in the hope that it'll continue to improve at this pace.

ANOTHER THING: While I'm sitting in my chair with the foot propped up, my fancies have turned to thoughts of Yuletide nominations. Just a week to get my noms in! Hmmm. What are you nominating?

I haven't even started to parse my final choices--see above, re: ankle and stressful work schedule--but it does seem that the Aubrey-Maturin novels, as well as the Master & Commander movie, is all safely under the limit, so that's a possibility. Now that I've finished the books and am re-reading them all again, I'm starting to feel delightfully immersed. (And of course the movie is engraved on my brain lobes, so.)

Another thing that leaps to mind is Shetland, the BBC Scotland show that sakana17, klia, and thevetia turned me on to. Well-written, beautifully-filmed detective drama set on the islands of the Shetland archipelago, and I adore the main character (other characters as well, of course, but, ♥ JIMMY ♥ ).

Rejseholdet|Unit One again, I think, to make sure it gets in there.

Shockingly, even though Black Sails looks to be just over a thousand stories on AO3 alone, using the yuletide bookmarklet on them reveals that there are actually fewer than 600 that are in English, complete, and over a thousand words long! Add that to the hundred-and-thirty-some that are on ff.net, and it still looks eligible!

I'm not sure I feel ready to write Black Sails (and by the way, I finished season 2 last week! I'll give that its own post, hopefully tomorrow), but if I'm not, it still might be nice to ask for.

That's four fandoms, though, and I can only nominate three. I have some mulling to do, for sure.

Comments

[killabeez]

I'm so sorry, bb! Please take care of you. {{{{{}}}}}

[dorinda]

Aw thank you! I have the bulk of my Sunday set aside for rest and healing, and am looking after the poor old foot as best I can. ♥

[the_shoshanna]

Ack, your ankle! (I thought you were going to say "the terrible uneven concrete around the corner from your house"; I'm sorry you have to negotiate two stretches of it, ugh.) I send you a gentle ice pack, if there is such a thing, and hopes that it continues steadily improving. Meanwhile I hope you can scoot around on a wheely chair as much as possible at work!

[dorinda]

Oh man it could so easily have been that stretch instead. UGH. You can see why I obsessively try to walk around the lumpiest parts of that strip! In fact, you were with me when a woman took a similar fall along there, weren't you? I remember trying to hit the sweet spot between being present and attentive to her, in case she did need help, but trying not to seem oppressive or add to any embarrassment. And that's purely because of my various experiences with sprain-falls--it's good to have help if necessary, but I still feel so awkward and horrified and want to scuttle away into a hole.

In short, this city is shall we say not so good at keeping its pedestrian infrastructure in smooth working order. >:-[

I was definitely all about the wheely chairs whenever possible at work. Couldn't do it in the projection booth, of course, but at the workbench I was like "wheeeeeeee" spinning myself hither and yon.

And by the by, I wanted to say that I am thinking of you in your latest set of stress and difficulties! I wish you didn't have to navigate such a tortuous set of rapids. *hug*

[the_shoshanna]

Yes, I was with you when the woman fell, and you helped gather up all her stuff; scary, for a minute there.

Thanks for the good wishes. Things here seem to have stabilized, and I'm catching my breath, which feels good.

Enjoy wheelying around your workbench!

[klia]

Gahhhh, nooooo! I'm glad your ankle's not worse but, geez, what a total drag. *hugs*

Can't believe is Yuletide nom time again. *makes grabby hands at all of your proposed noms*

[dorinda]

Draaaaaag. It takes so much longer to do anything. I absolutely had to do the laundry this morning, and am now wondering if I should maybe get a wheeled laundry basket. They have these kinds that are like sacks hung in frames, for instance. (I do have a wire cart on wheels for groceries, but it's so bulky and my apt. is so small that it has to live in the building basement, so it's a bit more trouble than it's worth to go haul it out every time laundry happens.)

On the bright side, now I have clean underpants. :D Alert the media!

I saw someone in a thread on the YT admin livejournal mention that she intended to nominate the Aubrey-Maturin novels and Master & Commander--so, if that holds true, I might be able to leave that up to her and nominate my other three. Hmmmm!

[kerithwyn]

Ouch, your poor ankle! Take care, you. {{smish}}

I am also obsessing over Yuletide noms, despite not having written all year. It is a ridonkulous exercise, yet so enthralling....

[dorinda]

Thanks! I know that you know from ankle crises, ugh.

Yuletide always ends up being a useful engine for getting me back on the writing horse. It's so structured, for one thing. But also, so many of my best-beloveds are such tiny fandoms! It's like the challenge was created just for meeeeee.

[gwyn]

Ugh, no, terrible fall!! As a complete klutz, I can empathize to the max about all of it. (When I was in NY last fall Par told me about how ice is the devil, and I didn't know what to make of it, but I went home and looked it up and apparently even the guy who created the RICE thing is saying not to use ice anymore. My first thought was, as a person who constantly sprains or breaks parts of my body, what am I supposed to do? I guess at least it feels like you're doing something…I really do need to look into that because at some point I'm going to do the same thing.) If you can get yourself some arnica cream or gel, that might help a little with the pain, too, that stuff is my lifesaver.

I made some weird nominations this year, one of which was a commercial because I guess that's how I roll?

[dorinda]

I understand where he's coming from re: ice, but I still use it in the initial traumatic stages of injury when my highest priority is numbing the pain. If he doesn't like it, he can come over here and yank my ice pack out of my cold dead hands. :D

[elynross]

Oh, man, I totally know that sound the ankle makes. :( :( :( I'm glad it's on the mend, but what a sucky thing! {{{you}}}

[dorinda]

Thank you! And I am sad that you know how that sound sounds. No one should know that. Ugggggggggh.