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my kingdom for some salve

so last night, i took a chicago bus to damen and waited a bit and looked at the map and waited and said, well, the map doesn't make it look far, i'm sure it's a bit farther than the 2 blocks they show up to wisconsin, but it can't be bad, i'll just walk it.
bad idear.
it was infact about 12 blocks up damen which wouldn't have been bad, if i hadn't seen a bank's temp sign that read 87 degrees. at 8 o'clock at night.
midway on the walk up, my lower calves felt weirdly itchy and tingley.
when i returned home after finding the first elizabeth crane book at a Myopic books (good!) (although i felt a little bad buying her book 2nd hand, but it's not like i didn't look for it at every olsson's (and a few non-independant new book stores) i've encountered since reading all this heavenly glory. i suppose i could have ordered it from amazon, but i was there, this is her city, i needed something to read while i dined alone at ear wax (great service, neat place, blah sammich) so perhaps she'll forgive me) i see my calves have broken out in a weird , hot to the touch rash. so i drew a cool bath and knelt in it and then took a shower and sat with a frozen package of green beans lashed to my right shin (a vision of loveliness if ever there was one)
it appears to be less red today, and aside from the incredibly gross reality of showing up at pitchfork in front of kc with my bruised heels and now this grodie rash, i looked it up on line, and apparently it now has a name: golfer's vasculitis. and it's common in PEOPLE OVER 50.
and exercising in heat (like the avon breast cancer walks), which i effectively was in my deathmarch up damen to hipsterville.
but 50?!?!?!?!
serious life changes are afoot when i get back to dc i'm telling you.
mike has a tool bar on the bottom of his computer screen that says "now: fair and 85 Today: 94 sunday 94 monday 95"i think i just felt my rash flare up.
UPDATE!
it is now 11:03 and i have spent exactly 2 hours dicking around on the internet watching idiots eat mentos and diet coke, watching david lettermen and those two guys spew mentos and diet coke (i don't understand why this is so interesting, but there it all is on youtube, ripe for the watching. the temp. at the bottom of the computer screen now claims it's 89. 5 more degrees to go until the anticipated high.
i'm still sitting in pajama pants rolled up to above the knee and a hotsnakes shirt. i feel and look so disgusting. i might try to ignore kc's calls if he does call to meet up.
speak of the devil. he just called to tel me he got drunk last night and his friend doesn't have any ibuprofin. i think i still win with the friend that doesn't have tv.
i suppose i should think about getting dressed. i think i remembr union park as being relatively shady....i hope.
mostly i hope that the crowds aren't super-douchey. and, really, i guess the #1 hope would be that this ugly heat rash could go away....or at least not get worse.

9:03 a.m. - 2006-07-29

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