Tis but a scratch -- a flesh wound

Sometimes I forget how little you all know about me

we all think that we know each other so well

so

would you believe that I'm a bit of a theater bug?

yeah -- the bug bit me a in college and while I don't have a lot of time for it -- I do like to stay involved.

so -- I've been the understudy for a local theatre group this year -- we've put on an all female feminist Hamlet -- normally being an understudy means lots of rehearsal -- but not much else

so imagine my surprise when I hear backstage that our Hamlet's lost her voice and I need to go on

and

things went pretty well

I've really been studying

until the sword fight at the end

when

ok

you know they're not real swords right?  I mean -- sure we're a bunch of nutty feminists prancing around in period costumes doing Shakespeare -- but we're not crazy -- the swords are rubber

and just at the end that bitch Laertes misses with her sword and hits me in the eye

giving me a nasty scratch on my cornea.

so

if anyone asks

THAT's how it happened.

yeah

that's it

feminist hamlet swordfight injury.