Human bodies are weird. With all the saber-toothed tigers and hummingbird encounters humanity has had to deal with for however many years, our bodies have come up with some cool ways to thwart a large number of possible threats. For instance, this morning I learned I could levitate, just not for a very long amount of time.
It all started last night when I heard the maintenance guys wander by outside and wonder what the hell had happened to the bushes and flowers outside my window. A mystery indeed. So I did my thing of telling myself it wasn't my problem, finished reading my email and went across the street to practice. However, it turns out it was my problem.
There I was, completely horizontal and deeply asleep, when someone decides to saw through the sidewalk right outside my window. Somehow, muscles I wasn't aware of contracted and my entire horizontal body popped up through the blankets layers and I woke up wondering what that noise was, where my blankets went, and why I was bouncing.
It's good to know that when faced with the threat of a concrete cutter while I sleep, my body's instinctive survival response is to bounce on the bed. That has practical applications, I'm sure. Because everyone knows the best way to stop a rabid, rampaging chincilla is to bounce on the bed a few times.
Moral of today's story: no pillows were lost in said bed-bouncing.
An Erinku!
old lime
sad and hardened
bounced on my floor
gloriously
No comments:
Post a Comment