My feet are killing me.

Part of the problem is that I've been walking all over the place in DC. But the real problem is that I've been wearing shoes every day for the last week after not wearing wearing them for all but 4 days in the last year while living in Samoa.

At the end of April, I rode my bike 180 kilometers around the island of Savai'i and, at the end of March, I wore shoes for the final two legs of a very short trathlon. Other than that, I wore sandals, flip-flops or went barefoot all the time, every day.

So now all the callouses I had built up over the past 30+ years of my life are gone and the tender skin in their place can't take even the most minor pounding and rubbing leaving me with blisters and bleeding abrasions.

I'm so pathetic. (Don't even get me started on socks)