Smooth, Drew, real smooth.

On the subject of Gravity, let's deal with something I learned the hard way today.

Gravity+absentmindedness+flight of stairs=ouch.

I took a bit of a tumble down the stairs today. Long flight of stairs too, the height difference between the first and ground floors is about 25-30 feet on that particular stairwell (the U of C med school was basically made of three buildings patched together, and sometimes they don't quite fit perfectly, so in some places, the stairwells have more stairs than others), but fortunately, I only had to drop half that distance.

'Course, it probably would have been a little easier if I had just dropped, instead of having to roll my way down the stairs, slamming rather undignified into the brick wall on the opposite end of the first landing.

So, just so you know, the next time you watch a movie where one of stuntmen has to roll down a flight of stairs; that hurts.

Would've been nice if they had carpeted stairwells, but nooooo, they had to have these hard linoleum tiles. 'Course, you can't have carpeting in a hospital. That's bad. But still....

Did I mention ouch?