4:15 AM Went to sleep too early last night. As the school year progresses it seems that I am more and more tired at the end of each week. Now with less than two months to go I come home exhausted and just collapse upon the bed. It doesn't help that my foot is injured.

I went to see the doctor yesterday afternoon. He put a new cast on my leg. No more boot. I've been demoted.

If you appreciate irony you will enjoy this story. Last Monday I was relaxing at home. I was on the bed with my foot elevated, being a good boy, when the phone rang. The bedroom phone was not there so I hobbled my way down the length of the house to get the living room phone. No boot, no crutches.

The voice on the other end of the line was my doctor. He told me he had just looked at the x-rays and that my foot was not healing as well as it should. He told me to come in and he would replace the boot with a cast. And, he told me, "DON'T WALK ON IT WITHOUT THE BOOT!"

I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.