going to need that padded furniture...

Friday, August 20, 2004, at 04:29AM

By Eric Richardson

How ridiculous is this? Somehow I managed to injure myself last night while sleeping. I know it happened last night because it woke me up (and really hurts this morning). But who hurts themselves enough to draw blood while sleeping?

I don't know what time it was, but I had been in bed for a while. I must have gotten too near the left side of my bed, because all of a sudden I thought I was rolling off. Instincts sent my left foot shooting down to catch me. The left foot must have been a little tired, though, because instead of finding the ground it smacked into my bed's side-board, ripping at my toenail and cutting a nice flap of skin from the front of the toe.

It hurts.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2004
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2002
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