May 1st - Blisters prevail

One of my things to get done is to take a picture a day for a month. Carly has attempted it (and I don't think she has succeeded yet), so I figured I should try over here in Okinawa before my life becomes dull and monotonous. Unfortunately, today it was rainy and I didn't want to venture out with my camera, so I took a picture of my feet. Yep. And my new shoes. Last summer and fall I wore flip flops constantly and I think the toil is going to make me a permanent fixture at the local podiatrist office. Besides the fact that they offer no support, they also had no traction and the sidewalks get uberslippery when it's rainy out here. I have a great purple scar on my knee to attest to this fact. In my desperation to have shoes that wouldn't make me fall on my bum every day it's raining and to hopefully prevent any more injuries, I decided that I might have to buy some Birkenstocks and pay out the nose. Having a size 9 1/2 foot makes buying women shoes an impossibility as the XL don't even fit. Thankfully yesterday the sky cleared and as I was passing a shoe store on my walk to the 100 yen store (new nail polish!), I found these men's shoes that I think are perfectly suited towards my female feet. And for only $16!



I have some red marks and the beginning of blisters... The other numerous bandaids are from all of the other permanent damage caused by every other pair of shoes that I own. Here's to Texcy shoes. May they get me through three months of humid, wet, sunburning weather. (Great tanlines ahead)

In other 101 news, I am finally approaching page 1000 in War and Peace and just started studying for the math portion of the GRE today. It has been too long. I could handle the ratios bit, but anything beyond that is a stretch.