I am convinced these sorts of things only happen to me...

So I was cleaning up my place a bit today and also putting together a new table from IKEA. That required a socket wrench, which was under my bookcase. I wriggled it free, no problem, but that tilted my generally-unstable bookcase just enough that the whole thing fell on me.

I'm fine, mostly because I wasn't in the dead center of the thing. Only the books on the right side of the case (about 50 of them) fell on top of me. Most of those were in a particularly large stack that I've been actively working with for my dissertation prospectus defense (which is next Wednesday, btw).

There is so much academic humor in this that I'm almost speechless. I was nearly crushed under the weight of my literature review!