I learnt a new thing this weekend

[sessifet]

Actually two. No, three. Okay, I tell a lie: four. Five. Oh no, wait, there's...oh heck. I'll start over.

I learnt a number of new things this weekend:

A) One can become incredibly fond of someone in under 36 hours.

B) 36 hours is not enough time spent with the_hunter.

C) I can launch an eight stone rottie off the bed with one foot.^*

D) Willow has an amazing amount of dribble to spare.

E) Grinning begins to hurt at some point.

F) I have learnt that the bony thing at the front of your knee is not actually, as I always thought, a meniscus. It is in actual fact a patella.

G) Jesus fuck, it doesn't half bloody hurt to dislocate the little bugger by running into a pointy door.<sup>**

*</sup> In all honesty, she landed on my foot. I moved said foot vigorously and she whuffled, leapt straight into the air and then exited the bed.

^** This is not a new fact I have learnt. My patella has been dislocated before. It's been a few years since it done it last.

Comments

[jester-uk.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realised Hunter was contagious

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's not. It's just that I am, in my own way, quite unlucky and clumsy. I take full responsibilty for whacking my knee into the door. It's not its fault. It was just there, doing what a door does best.

I blundered into it because I was off in my own little happy memory/daydream. And then I apologised to it.

[winterbay.livejournal.com]

Good for you :)
However I thought D) was a well known fact by almost all now? :)

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

It bears repeating. It really does.

[rpdom.livejournal.com]

When we last visited Hunter, Willow greeted gipsy_dreamer in her usual fashion, then had to refill her drool glands before returning for another slobbering session :-)

[the-hunter.livejournal.com]

Hee! Shush, people might guess! :)

[bunnyk.livejournal.com]

c) Is a useful skill to have *nods*

E) *grins*

F) Do you know, I thought the meniscus was a body part, too. Hmm. Odd.

G) *hug*

[swaldman.livejournal.com]

I've always understood a meniscus to be the curve in the upper surface of a fluid caused by surface tension. Where the surface meets the walls it "sticks", while the centre of it sags or bulges according to the force at work; in the case of a liquid in a jar, sags due to gravity. It's most obvious in a small tube such as a test tube or an old-style barometer. The barometer shows it best; when the pressure is rising you can see the meniscus pushing into the mercury, and when the pressure is falling you can see it standing out.
Hmm, hopefully that makes sense.
Also, *ow*.

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

It's also one of these.

[swaldman.livejournal.com]

ah ha. Multiple meanings. Curse you, English language!

[dmwcarol.livejournal.com]

My kneecap used to slip to one side quite often, it bloody hurt. You have my sympathies.

And my squeeful congratualtions for the rest of the post :o)

BTW - when the "smug grin" starts to hurt you could always try alternating with "delighted giggling", "contented sigh" and make sure you include plenty of "prolonged snog" to exercise all those facial muscles :o)