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Worth the Itchies?

Met my first husband Steve Chaput (link at sidebar) at about 11 AM to take in the NY Is Book Country street fair today; still haven't recovered. Lots of walking atop not that much sleep last night (poor Amy had a hairball that she just had to get rid of between 4 and 4:30 AM) rather wiped me out by 2 PM, and that included breaking for lunch. There's just no shade at that hour when you're in the middle of the closed-off Fifth Avenue with the bright sun beating down on you (not to mention your bookbag handle suddenly going bust). And while I saw a few folks I knew, I bought nothing; by the time we did the back-uptown trek all the signings were in full swing at the more popular booths and you couldn't even get near the books. Good job there's Amazon, I suppose. Overall I wasn't all that impressed, and that's saying something about a fair I used to anticipate for months prior. I tend to judge street festivals nowadays by how uncomfortable I know they'll make my arms afterwards - I get some sort of horrid itching attack on my forearms after I've been outside for awhile with them unprotected, and I have no idea what to even put on them because I have no idea what the itching is symptomatic of. Anyway, after konking for 2-3 hours upon my return I woke up this evening with a very bad case of the itchies, so I'd have to say the fair wasn't worth that, but seeing Steve probably was.