Its been two days since I've worn socks.

Three days ago a terrible thing happened. I reached into my hamper to grab a pair of socks (I don't always get around to sorting and folding my socks after I do laundry because I hate it). As I donned my foot coverings I realized that this was my last pair of socks. I had to do laundry again. damn it. Whats worse it highlighted the loss of half of my favorite pair of socks a few weeks ago, because if only i had those red and gray socks I could have made it another day.
if you've been keeping up on the Vienna blog circuit you already know that doing laundry here is a rather hellacious misadventure. Well recently things have gotten worse. For about two weeks there was only one laundry machine, which was bad but not awful because the cycle is only about 30 minutes long. Then one evening laundry room attendees were greeted with the triumphant return of the second washing machine. HUZZAH!
But just when things were looking up they got so much worse. Soon the second dryer had a sign that simply read, scrawled in pencil, "KAPUTT!" What makes this so bad is the dryer cycle here is 90 minutes and even after that your clothes still aren't dry; they're really just hot enough that the water will evaporate when you take it out of the dryer, if you're lucky. Come to think of it, its more a sauna then a dryer. Well as you may have gleaned from the title, I did not do laundry due to unavoidable delays (read: my favorite Irish pub in vienna) and have been wearing my Chucks with out socks. As a result I live in a constant state of fear that my shoes and feet will smell bad. They don't for now so I'm safe but my fear has led me to frequently remove my shoes in public.
Laundry day is tomorrow because I've run out of more than just socks now. Wish me luck.

Ryan Adams Talking about Smelly Socks before going into "Easy Plateau" during a show in, I think, Scotland.