It's Hard to Stay in Shape when Physics Hates Me

So I'm sitting in my computer chair at home, leg propped up on my bed, absent from work. Why you ask? Last night, playing basketball, I managed to get hurt. This should not surprise anyone, since I also manage to hurt myself doing things like playing pool, sitting at a desk, and eating. This, however, is worse. I went up for a shot in the lane, and came down on someone's foot. The ankle went over, and there was a positively GORGEOUS tearing sound, not unlike paper being ripped in two. Oh yeah, and then it hurt like a kick in the balls from a donkey on fire for about half an hour.

This morning, my foot looks kinda like a balloon animal. A big, disgusting, diseased balloon animal. I'd take pics and post 'em, but my digital camera wire has been AWOL for a few months now, and despite efforts to replace it, it seems I had the only cable in existence capable of fitting my camera's port. Anywway, it suffices to say that around the ball of my ankle and the top of my foot, I've got some severe swelling and some colorful bruising. It's sorta like art. HEY! I'm gonna start that, a new art form - injury art. "The swelling around the joint represents man's struggle with utilitarian society." I will yet be rich.

As I mentioned, I am somewhat injury prone. This is making it increasingly frustrating to try and get in shape as I get older. Last summer, it was my bike accident (I DO have pics of that stored on the computer, for anyone who wants to see - I think the raw skin on my palms really captures the essence of nature vs. industry). I'd just gotten that bike, was having fun and getting good exercise, and then boom, no use of my hands for a week, and no real hard activity for a month and a half. About a month and a half ago, again at basketball, I got smoked in the head by an elbow, split it open, and received 9 stitches for my trouble, also cutting my night pitifully short in the exercise department. Despite stretching and warming up, back while I was lifting weights, I would often pull something, seemingly out of no real effort.

I would like very much not to grow old and get fat. It appears first, however, the laws of Physics and I will have to duel - an epic death match sure to produce great works of art that will be appreciated down through the ages.