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Exhausted -- a good deal of 'too stupid to sleep' until 4 (I think I got home not much after midnight) and then having trouble keeping my Displeased Tibialis Anterior in a position it wasn't pissed about on and off all night. And all the sleepy things I've tried are still in my system, too.

Posted just now on FB:

That it is so difficult for me to sleep if anything hurts is testament to a life blessedly without pain.

That perhaps it was unclever to already have 10000 steps before arriving at Blues last night and then take an aleve before 10000 more . . .*worth it* - I had some truly exquisite dances.

My conclusion at the end of the night that 'Oh cool I was right - I don't lift my feet much in Blues and that's why nothing hurt' was obviously flawed; still I was/am especially thankful it was my left and not right leg that currently gets mad about pointing* and somehow so many of these exquisite dances had times where I was pointing my right and not my left. (Except for one time when any other time I would have gotten all the way on the ball of my foot to be turned around - blues/tango mix is so very marvelous, in a way completely different from simply blues or simply tango**.

Y'know what's especially frustrating? Sitting here typing nothing hurts at all, and yet it seems almost every way I might want to sleep will annoy my let.

And yes, I'm fully planning on being unclever and going to The Grandsons tomorrow at Glen Echo. After possibly being out at the AFGE event. (Possibly in that what with the high of 23 and 50mph wind gusts making for a wind chill around 0 they may move it all inside, however *that* works.) I so very much enjoyed dancing to The Grandsons at the Holiday Market '24 on asphault; I am really looking forward to the sound and the floor of the real ballroom.

I *do* plan to be sedentary today, but that might still involve a costco and hopefully a best buy before eventually Romeo and Juliet, the comedy at Greenbelt.
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*TA is jacked up and really dislikes too much engagement /or/ stretch
** what to me felt way less on axis than it could have been was still apparently sufficiently on axis that my lead noticed nothing amiss so yay, and I hope I managed to get across that my telling him pointing my left was painful was an explanation of why I hadn't done so and not that he'd caused me pain. Because he didn't.

Hilariously, a goodly reason for those already 10k steps was that I had a doctors appointment today about WTF TA. But my phone has been spending a lot of time unuseable and I hadn't previewed "okay how loong will it take me to walk from the Washington Post Union rally (which was astonishingy well attended given under 24 hrs notice) to the drs office, which helped enable me brain glitching and walking most of the way to a *former* drs office before asking someone to look up the location of the current one. Meaning quick walked 13th & K to 11th & I before speedwalking back over to 16th and I. And then I had the bright idea to walk from fed center sw instead of changing trains to get home.


I'm starting to think that what's going on is from having had the extremely talented ability to turn my foot with both my back and it firmly on the ground. Why firmly on the ground? I had a guy 70 pounds bigger than me on my other foot, then dropped him into my knee, and my leg was busy maintaining stability. Oops.

Well not entirely that, but, well as I emailed primary care yesterday afternoon, add something else that usually wouldn't make TA seize up but apparently did, and then after thta all had calmed down slide off a snowbank into a car (best guess about some bruising) and then have the bright idea to speed walk at the end of the night hoping to get to 6k steps ... and somewhere in there getting as far as 'oh TA is seized maybe stretch it? this may be why everything's still a mess.

what's especially weird is the bruising down near my foot; it looks exactly like when I sprained the hell out of an ankle, but anything sprainlike would have been nearly 2 weeks ago.


PC wants to give it a little bit and then xray.

I should probably email that other baltimore study that definitely not til March sometime.

I don't think I want to bail on the AFGE thing. This is the largest i guess umbrella federal union. They have a convention here in DC annually; I'm pretty sure it was at their rally last year I walked with Senator Sarbanes back to the Capitol and asked him about speaking at the 2nd 50501 rally, the one on President's day. I'm certain that conversation was the first he knew of the now large movement, and I'm ever so glad he headlined Annapolis rather than coming down to us at the Capitol - getting him through that dense crowd to the underpowered sound system would have been a nightmare.

Right, the AFGE thing. Anyway they're having a Young Workers March tomorrow, the first march they've tried. It's entirely possible that they'll have a rally inside the hotel, but it doesn't sound like they have a room that would hold what I would be expecting for the march and rally. Then again, I made those expectations a month ago on learning they were having buses coming in, and it's been clear for a week that tomorrow will be miserably cold.

(Still, I'm feeling bad I didn't post flyers anywhere)

Yes, I'm rambling.

50501. Here's what I wrote on that, in an intro to 50501 National (there isn't a National!) FB post on the first birthday (There's probably bsky and insta with similar content):

One year ago today* was the first 50501 national day. Here in DC it was pretty small compared to some other places - maybe 300 - nobody knew who was running it and USAID had a rally the same place nearly the same time and planned for an unheard of nearly a week. They then wandered over to Department of Labor, answering their call for a crowd before Doge was expected.
12 days later was the second national day, with over 100 locations and at least 5000 at the Capitol reflecting pool.
By a week before Hands Off (April 5) there was nowhere in the Continental US more than 4 hours drive from an event.
Well over 2000 locations October 18.
February 17 is Lobby Everywhere.
I've told people so many times that I care so much less about how many people make their way to DC than how many ever smaller towns and communities are making their displeasure visible. And making it clear to those who thought they were alone that they are not.
I've described 50501 as "baby's first protest." Even as recently as October I was still seeing so many "I brought my husband to his first protest." "I brought my mother to her first protest." This is not a small thing. (Sure, I usually call them rallies and events, as a nod to 'protest is disruptive.)
(Also shoutout to the overpass actions, which I think are one of the best ways to get people not paying attention to have something filter in. HCR yesterday said the average American spends 4 min A WEEK on politics. In this area that's a lot of different Indivisibles, but that's also something 50501s do in a lot of areas. The Colorado Bridge Trolls have been having overpass action dance parties.)
Lets go.
* well I haven't gone to sleep yet

Looking at the "well I haven't gone to sleep yet" from 8 hrs ago...
Maybe I can nap...