writers are messed-up people, yo
Jan. 31st, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerWithin fifteen seconds of being kicked in the head during karate tonight, a part of me was thinking, "I should pay attention to what this feels like, in case I need it for a story."
For the curious: very brief disorientation; swift (and only partially voluntary) decision that it would be better if I put my center of gravity lower for a few seconds, i.e. knelt on the floor; massive radiating heat from my ear lasting for a good half hour or more afterward. (It's still red now, an hour later, though not swollen.) Oddly, the most painful spot is actually the skin in the crease behind my ear; presumably that has something to do with the cartilege being mashed by the impact.
(I was not kicked with any great force. Though admittedly, when one's kumite partner is six foot three, "not with any great force" is still enough to be troublesome. And more than enough to guilt one's kumite partner with -- especially when he is also one's husband. ^_^)
For the curious: very brief disorientation; swift (and only partially voluntary) decision that it would be better if I put my center of gravity lower for a few seconds, i.e. knelt on the floor; massive radiating heat from my ear lasting for a good half hour or more afterward. (It's still red now, an hour later, though not swollen.) Oddly, the most painful spot is actually the skin in the crease behind my ear; presumably that has something to do with the cartilege being mashed by the impact.
(I was not kicked with any great force. Though admittedly, when one's kumite partner is six foot three, "not with any great force" is still enough to be troublesome. And more than enough to guilt one's kumite partner with -- especially when he is also one's husband. ^_^)
