Me - 1, Car - 0

I think one of the biggest moments of my life happened yesterday. And, no. It wasn't a good moment. Yesterday afternoon I got hit by a car while I was walking to the grocery store. Needless to say, I did not get my groceries.

Luckily, the car was turning into a parking lot and wasn't going very fast. Also lucky that I didn't even break any bones. Time sort of stopped, and was looking at the car right beside me, and it seemed like I had plenty of time to move out of the way, and then I was airborne, and then on the ground on my shoulder. I got up right away, though. The girl who hit me was more upset than I was. I was even going to keep going to the grocery store, but then I got dizzy and thought I should really go to the hospital because, while I was pretty sure I didn't hit my head, I wasn't a hundred percent sure since everything happened so quickly.

And, then I had to wait, and wait and wait at the hospital. There was also an old woman there who'd broken her ankle and was waiting for three hours for a cast. Really? A pedestrian hit by a car and an old lady with a broken ankle both had to wait forever. I wonder what the people had that got to go before us. They did x-rays on my shoulder to see if there was a hairline fracture or any ACL damage, but everything seemed fine. My shoulder is sore as fucking hell, but it's all just deep tissue brusing. And, my shins are pretty sore because that's where the bumper hit me. This morning I called into work and said I couldn't go in, because I really would have been useless even though I can still completely use my right arm, and my left is fine as long as I don't have to raise it or lift anything. But, the excuse "I can't come to work. I was hit by a car..." totally seems made up to me. It's in the same ballpark as "a dog ate my homework", because normally if you're hit by a car, you're in traction or dead, not up and standing thirty seconds after it happened.

But, at least I can still knit! Thank god, since I still have Christmas knitting to finish. I also haven't worked on Mariposa in the last few days. School's pretty much all done except for a few final tests and projects that I've had to study for, and then I've been spending the rest of the time knitting. Hopefully I can get some done on it after Christmas. I do still open it and peck away a few paragraphs. But, considering how long my chapters are, that isn't very much.