After over a month of dealing with pain in my left foot, I finally made it back to running on the treadmill today despite all kinds of second thoughts about doing so. And weirdly, my foot feels even more healed after several minutes of treadmill pounding - precisely the opposite of what I'd expected. So as closure and final retaliation, I'm seriously considering conducting a Sacrificial Shoe Ceremony in which I will either set fire to or offer up to charity the offending new work shoes that got me into that whole unexpected broken toe mess in the first place.