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Warning: I am sleep-deprived. When I am sleep-deprived and can't sleep because (for instance) I'm at work, I make a lot of posts.
Eric was hanging out with his gaming posse last night, so I was on my own. I cooked up an artichoke and figured I'd work on the UTrad website and the last 2 Pagan classes that are coming up Sunday. Sadly it was not to be, though, because there was a Star Trek: Next Gen I'd never seen before, then Good Eats had a new episode, then I decided to go for a walk.
In contemptuous defiance of the warnings about 'getting used to walking barefoot' that came with my new toe shoes, I decided to wear them for the Ganymede-Europa loop around our neighborhood that's about a mile and a half walk. The reasons why this was stupid were many. First, they were new shoes. Even if they were neat-o funky extra-comfortable new shoes, they were still new shoes and I hadn't done even any minimal breaking in. Next, as it is true that they are like walking barefoot it occurred to me later- I would not walk a mile and a half on suburban concrete sidewalks in bare feet, so why would I do this in shoes that simulate that? Third, I am not a lightweight, and I also have remnants of a screwed-up gait as a result of deformities from my childhood. It almost required surgery, I'm told, but they were able to correct it by catching it early enough and making me wear frighteningly unattractive orthopedic shoes. I don't think about this much because I don't notice it (it's just how I've always been), but if you look at the bottoms of my older shoes you do see an odd, asymmetric wear pattern. So, I have blisters on my feet today. Ow. I should have stuck to 'bouldering' (an actual sport, apparently) like the manual suggested. They're still cool shoes.
Then I screwed around 'til Eric got home, and talked and watched the Good Eats again with him (they repeated it at midnight). Result- sleep-deprived.
Eric was hanging out with his gaming posse last night, so I was on my own. I cooked up an artichoke and figured I'd work on the UTrad website and the last 2 Pagan classes that are coming up Sunday. Sadly it was not to be, though, because there was a Star Trek: Next Gen I'd never seen before, then Good Eats had a new episode, then I decided to go for a walk.
In contemptuous defiance of the warnings about 'getting used to walking barefoot' that came with my new toe shoes, I decided to wear them for the Ganymede-Europa loop around our neighborhood that's about a mile and a half walk. The reasons why this was stupid were many. First, they were new shoes. Even if they were neat-o funky extra-comfortable new shoes, they were still new shoes and I hadn't done even any minimal breaking in. Next, as it is true that they are like walking barefoot it occurred to me later- I would not walk a mile and a half on suburban concrete sidewalks in bare feet, so why would I do this in shoes that simulate that? Third, I am not a lightweight, and I also have remnants of a screwed-up gait as a result of deformities from my childhood. It almost required surgery, I'm told, but they were able to correct it by catching it early enough and making me wear frighteningly unattractive orthopedic shoes. I don't think about this much because I don't notice it (it's just how I've always been), but if you look at the bottoms of my older shoes you do see an odd, asymmetric wear pattern. So, I have blisters on my feet today. Ow. I should have stuck to 'bouldering' (an actual sport, apparently) like the manual suggested. They're still cool shoes.
Then I screwed around 'til Eric got home, and talked and watched the Good Eats again with him (they repeated it at midnight). Result- sleep-deprived.
