This past weekend while moving about in bed, I caught a toenail in the sheets. The toenail just split in half and peeled right off my toe. It wasn’t painful but it’s not pretty to look at, and no, I’m not posting a picture of my toe.
What the heck? How does this happen? Are pieces of my body just going to start dropping off now, like a snake shedding its skin? I feel like Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in “The Fly”, collecting prized body parts as they fall off and safekeeping them in the medicine cabinet.
I just love Jeff Goldblum. Wacky and wonderful Jeff Goldblum. I can quote his lines and imitate his hand gestures. Jurassic Park (“Think they’ll have THAT on the ride?”) and Independence Day ("Forget the fat lady! You’re obsessed with the fat lady! Drive us out of here!”) are two of my favorite movies. And of course, everyone claims to love "The Big Chill", although, for me, that was eclipsed by the Brat Pack movies that followed.
And while I love Jeff on the big screen, I don’t think I’d want to save his body parts in a jar like fireflies.
