crunchy tendons and car lights

so boys and girls, what do you do when you're feeling a strange crunch in your left foot?

if you answered, 'go to the doctor, you dumbass,' you're right! i now have a very nifty post-op shoe to wear.

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check out that style!

it's to keep the tendons in the top of my foot from bending up when i walk. after five xrays, it's determined that nothing's broken, but i am supposed to stay off my foot and elevate it for the next couple of days, which precludes going to the studio tomorrow.

apparently, it's not so good when you land a kick incorrectly on your 80 lb. heavy bag. i didn't think much of it at the time, but i managed to bruise the muscle on the top of my foot, and move my tendons to places they should not be. the crunch sensation is the tendons snapping back to where they're supposed to go, and then back to where they're at.

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a closeup, sans shoe.

how i feel about my foot.
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the kicker to the evening, though, was on the way home from sushi, courtesy of my fabulous best friend, when he discovered that my right headlight was out.

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how i feel about the car misbehaving.

the brights and fog lamp and parking light, and turn signal all still work on that side, and the bulb is good, as are the fuses… so it's probably just a loose wire. or, some really expensive electrical system problem. let's all cross our fingers and think 'loose wire,' shall we?

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this is me, officially taking to my bed with the vapors. tomorrow i'll go tackle the car, but for now, i'm done with today.

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yes, traffic in LA really is that bad

Because of the imbalance between road supply and travel demand, delay on urban freeways has nearly doubled from about 262,000 vehicle-hours per day in 1992 to 512,000 vehicle-hours per day in 2002.... Congestion is defined as occurring when vehicles are traveling at 35 miles per hour or less during peak commute periods on a typical work day.... Congestion on urban freeways costs Californians at least $16 million per day (or $5.9 billion per year) in wasted time and excess fuel.

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no good deed...

driving home tonight, I:

-did two people a favor
-bent a rule
-got into a car accident
-got everyone through it not just alive, but unharmed
-sacrificed slushbucket
-kept calm
-kept everyone else calm
-only said, 'i told you so' once
-discovered that slushbucket is fragile
-watched a second accident as I talked with the other drivers. that one was an ugly hit & run
-was *not* issued a ticket, though technically I could've been
-waited 2 hours for a tow truck & replacement slushbucket
-went through one hell of a bonding experience
-missed karate class

and by all that's holy, I need a drink. sorry to be so cryptic, but my job's legal dept. policy is to not talk about what happened, except to the highway patrol. and since this is public, there we go.

my back is sore, but i'm fine. posting this from my cel phone on the way back.

[EDIT] all the same, i went to kaiser to get myself checked out, because after the adrenaline wore off, i began to hurt, a lot. i got diagnosed with whiplash, and given naproxen 500mg (2x daily) and flexeril 10mg (3x daily, damn!).