Fall is here

Or so it seems. The weather is definitely cooler, or as T would say, nipply. It's great for me since crutches make you sweat like crazy, especially if it's hot and sunny and your carrying a heavy backpack . So I'm happy about that.

The cooler weather also means that people are wearing warmer clothes; the jeans, long sleeves and sweatshirts come out. But there are still some people, mostly men who resist and wear shorts. Yesterday I was at the student center studying before my class started and was looking at people passing by. There were girls who were clearly happy to be wearing something other than shorts. Then a guy wearing sport shorts and a sweatshirt came by. It kinda still is shorts weather if you are outside and it's sunny but when it dark it definitely is not shorts weather anymore. And the classrooms are NOT warm. When the A/C is on, it is friggin cold! But anyway, back to this guy. I was looking at his choice of clothes and thinking to myself "your upper body is cold but your legs are not. Why?" I know for me when I wear shorts in a classroom when the A/C is on, it is cold and having a sweatshirt isn't helping. Your legs need to be covered too. So I looked at his legs and they were hairy. Does body hair really keep you warm? Does it keep your legs warm but not your arms? And this led to me thinking about evolution...Supposedly thousands of years ago when our ancestors were populating the earth they didn't have all these fancy and warm clothes so they needed the body hair. Over the years, millenniums and decades we have lost most of it, not all though. Supposedly the traits that humans had back then were all needed and over the years some have disappeared because those traits are no longer needed. Like our corner teeth. Once upon a time we didn't have knifes and forks to cut our meet so it was necessary to have sharp teeth to eat meet. No it's not anymore...but we still have them. They're not as sharp as they used to but the shape is still visible. Why do we have them? Why do we have body hair that doesn't seem to have any use anymore? And why do some people have more than others? Why do men have more than women? Why? If anybody knows the answer, you're free to tell me.

There's a type of bunny in Finland (I call it a bunny because I don't know the English name for it, in Finnish it is Rusakko) which is brown during the summer and white during the winter. Why, you ask? Because that's its camouflage.Being brown during the summer makes it easier for it to hide from its predators and same in the winter. If you're white they can't see you from the snow. Why is it like this? Because if it wasn't able to adapt, it wouldn't be here anymore.evolution. So why do people still have hairy legs and arms when we don't need them anymore? Why do men have beards? And why do people have hair on their head? And no T, I am not saying we shouldn't have hair on our heads I'm just asking what's the purpose.

One area where evolution has NOT reach is insurance companies. I had a little episode with my MRI place and the insurance company today and they almost cancelled my appointment so I'm a little on edge right now. I've never in my life called the insurance company so many times as I've done these past few weeks. But hopefully it'll settle down. The good news is I can go to a chiropractor and have my back cracked without having to see a doctor first. I just want them to twist and pull and tie my back into a knot! I don't care, just fix me!