Owwie

Well, my shoes are worn out. I have a natural tendency to walk on the outside edge of my feet, which translates into increased wear that eventually makes my shoes tilt outwards, worsening the (normally slight) effect.

I have a pair of backup shoes, though -- way back in college, I used to wear sports shoes, but they wore out and I switched to wearing these hiking shoes my mom had bought me full time. When it came time to replace them, I was used to that style and bought another pair.

The *second* time I had to replace them, the salesman smelled blood, and had me try on sports shoes too -- I ended up buying a pair of each, since the sports shoes were waaay more comfortable, but I didn't want to admit I hadn't known what I wanted.

Anyway, I've been wearing the sports shoes ever since, but now that they're worn out, all I have left in the house are the hiking shoes -- so I figured, eh, I'll just wear them until I get around to buying a new pair.

Ow ow ow ow ow! Jesus Christ on a stick, it's like strapping a pair of iron maidens to my feet! The normal walk in the morning that I've gotten used to makes my feet ache, and I can feel the sharp edge of the leather biting into my ankle...

Little things

Sign seen everywhere at work: "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit!"

Unavoidable mental translation: "It's amazing what I can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit!"

The recycling bins at my apartment turned out not to be completely missing, as I'd thought -- they were replaced by a huge recycling dumpster, which seems to imply that we just dump them all in the same bag. At least, that's what I'm doing.

Willpower: A mechanism in the friday game, is than arguments between two people are resolved by an opposed willpower check. For an example of this in action, see this week's Lost. }:P

I'm also wondering whether my willpower is high, or low, since I don't have trouble refusing people who try to browbeat me or getting things that (in my opinion) really need to get done done, but I have a terrible time resisting temptation or getting started on things that need to be done for work. And, really, sometimes I *do* have trouble resisting people asking me to do stuff, as long as they don't make me too annoyed. Salesmen, for instance... I need to stay away from salesmen.