It's Shorts Season

Oy.

But first, the latest in medical news.

I have something called avascular necrosis, which seems to be fairly common. It's one of those things that once you've got it, you've got it. The only "cure", if you want to call it that, is a knee replacement, which, based on my current levels of pain, is many, many years in the future, if then. For now, wear a brace and use the cane when I need it. Don't do exercises that bend the knee excessively. A very nice doctor; I liked him very much.

It wasn't even particularly hot today, but it was the first of June. Even so, not the first day for girls wearing shorts to school; they've been doing that for weeks now. It's not uncommon to see a girl in shorts that we used to call hot pants, worn with either a few layers of tank tops or a sweater, and especially Uggs, those heavy looking, shearling and suede boots. Either that or flipflops so flimsy they don't even qualify as shoes.

I have become the old fogey, or, as Pogo put it so well, "We have met the enemy and he is us." At this point, I'd be just as happy if all the kids wore uniforms to school, or at least some semblance thereof, and you can be sure that if anyone had tried to institute such a thing when I was in high school, I would have been at front lines of the protest. But speaking as the old fogey in residence, I am just tired of telling boys to pull their pants up (to cover their boxers and/or behinds), and the girls ... I don't even know what I would say to the girls. Last week (I may have mentioned, I don't remember), a girl came into the library wearing tiny red hot pants/shorts, leaving little to the imagination, a sleeveless top, skin tight, most of it lace, and over the knee black leather boots with spiked heels. I kid you not. It was like she was dressing as a hooker for Halloween, but hey, not Halloween. I don't see hookers everywhere in school so much as I just see inappropriate clothing. I always wonder: what do they wear to church (if they go)? Why is necessary to show so much of their flesh all the time?

In hearing aid news, this loaner is not fun. I get very little amplification and lots of feedback, and it's so small, I'm afraid I'm going to lose it all the time. I'm told that the manufacturer is shipping mine out tomorrow, so I should have them Wednesday or Thursday. Fingers crossed.

I have the go-ahead to go back to exercising now, as long as I don't bend my knee too far. I want to get back to the Wii Fit; I haven't done it in months. Tomorrow, perhaps. We shall see.



watching THE GOLDEN GIRLS :: ENTRY #2057
READING: American Lion: Andrew Jackson by Jon Meacham