Rollerskating vs Walking

Today I saw someone rollerskating on campus with a huge pile of books and his knapsack and when he got to the stairs, he just ran up with his skates still on. I used to toy with the idea of getting a pari of blades and blading around campus, but obviously since blades cost money and I am a v. lousy blader, I've not done it.

Anyway for all the progress I'm making walking, I might as well blade because I think the frequency of falls I've taken while walking around campus would be the same as the frequency of falls I'd take blading around campus. I was running from my first lecture to the second just now, and because I was wearing really long jeans (health hazard), I tripped and fell splat on the hard concrete and my books went flying. I lay there for a moment stunned, and a Merry lookalike rushed up to me and I looked up at him in a daze. "Are you ok?" He said and I clambered up and he took my books for me. Was really touched by his concern and that of other people who came up and said "That looked awful. Are you sure you're all right?"

Went unto lecture breathless and surreptitiously rolled up jeans to inspect damage and I had two very pretty red bloody spots on my knees oozing blood in sient protest. :oP

There's a Pippin lookalike living on Floor 6 below me, and there's a Frodo lookalike in my Biology lecture, and I've just met a Merry lookalike. Campus is awash with these little hobbits...