Well, I have my first battle wounds at Princeton. I was working the Princeton Basketball game on Wednesday for work. It's a very nice stadium: really big and then it goes five stories down. Anyway, in order to set up merchandise we have to bring up to eight foot tables from the fourth floor. So we were tearing down after we had finished and I was bringing the tables back down to the storage area. They were stacked on a lay-down dolly one on top of the other. So as I taking the first table off the dolly, I didn't pick it up well enough so that it jostled the second table. Sure enough, the other table fell off the dolly and directly onto my left big toe. Now, I was only wearing my converse sneakers, and due to the fact that I was holding the other table, I couldn't see the other table moving. So when it landed on my toe, there was very little absorbing the brunt of its weight aside from my foot, and I didn't brace myself for it. So after trying to walk it off, I kept going. After I got back to my dorm, I propped it up and tried to keep it elevated.
The next day it was a nice shade of purple. I was going to wait just a little bit before seeing a doctor to make sure that it wasn't just a bad bruise. Not much happened except that as I was walking down the sidewalk, there was a lip in the concrete and I caught it with my left foot. That didn't feel good.
It wasn't too swollen but it was growing increasingly purple so I decided to get it checked out this morning. And sure enough, it's probably broken. I still need to have it X-rayed to confirm that it is indeed broken, but either way, the only thing I can do for it is to have it bandaged up. Thankfully it's not very painful unless I put weight on it or do something stupid like kick a lip in the sidewalk or bump it on my bedpost. I just can't walk very well or very fast. So I'll probably be limping around campus for the final few weeks of school. But it's not too bad.
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