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Yesterday’s light headedness persisted and got kind of headachy. My legs also started aching which usually means I’m coming down with something that involves a fever. I ended up going to bed about 8:30 and then reading in bed until after 10:00. I kept thinking I’d sleep soon. I feel much better this morning, though, and I’ve got a list of things I want to get done.

I forgot to mention— I talked to my mother Monday afternoon. She actually called me which is something that almost never happens. She says that the reason I couldn’t reach them was that they had to put their dog to sleep on her birthday (also their wedding anniversary). It was unexpected, and the vet thinks that it was some sort of cancer that caused a rupture with internal bleeding. The dog was about fourteen, so they’d known they didn’t have much time left, but she’d seemed perfectly healthy, physically, just mentally very confused.

I’m trying to read the Welcome to Night Vale novel before it’s due on Sunday. There is a longish waitlist, so I can’t renew it. I rather wish I’d started it sooner because I can’t read it in chunks longer than about fifteen pages. When I go longer than that, my mind just kind of stops processing what’s going on as interesting. Reading short bits is fun, though.

I lost about two hours of working time this morning to an OS update for my laptop. I really wish that downloading such things was faster. I’m not normally big on the notion of switching away from Earthlink DSL because they’ve been good to us, but downloads take so very, very long. Of course, there was also a download for some sort of camera communication software that I didn’t want but couldn’t figure out how to refuse.

I’m very, very close to leveling up in Ingress. If I don’t do it sooner, it will happen either Sunday when we go to the library or Tuesday when I go to PT.

Cordelia’s school had a water drive for Flint. We didn’t end up sending anything in because we kept forgetting to go to the store at points when we could go. I ended up giving money to the Genesee County United Way chapter, specifically for buying water filters for people in Flint. The goal of the campaign is to keep buying new filters for people for as long as they’re needed. It’s not a great solution, but it may be easier to keep up with than trying to provide people with sufficient bottled water to keep going for as long as this is going to take. Bottled water is just showier.

The only charities I could find doing this sort of work were the United Way, the American Red Cross, and Catholic Charities of Genesee County (and I found the last two only via a CNN article). 'flint water donate' brought up a lot of news stories about celebrities and corporations donating to relief efforts but not much else. The Genesee County United Way only has a two star rating on Charity Navigator, but I decided that the things they were getting dinged for weren’t things that would impact this campaign. 83% of what’s given to them goes for programs, and most of the things that Charity Navigator listed as negatives are probably more the result of being small than of corruption or gross incompetence. I’m not discounting incompetence, of course, but if 83% of my donation goes to water filters, I’m pleased by that.

Today, I want to do a load of laundry, bake cookies or cake, bake bread (which requires cleaning the pan first), and write. Oh, and I want to read a chapter of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and comment on it for that Narnia forum I visit occasionally. I said I’d do it over the weekend, and somehow, I didn’t get to it. I don’t think it will take very long. Those chapters aren’t dreadfully long, and I’m just looking for whatever ideas occur to me as I read.

Speaking of writing, on LJ indelicateink is hosting a small, informal fic exchange. It basically consists of people offering prompts and/or listing the things they’re willing to write. It’s mostly focused on Weiss Kreuz and Saiyuki because that’s the crowd reading there, but indelicateink has said that other fandoms are welcome, just that they may not get the same level of response. I haven’t commented there yet, but I’m going to. I’ve just got a dozen other small things (mostly responses to LJ and DW comments) that I want to get to first. I also have to think about it and see if I can come up with any prompts. I’m terrible at that part of this sort of thing. Most of what’s there right now is prompts.

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Cordelia’s laundry is dry and upstairs. My laundry is in the dryer. I’ve taken two stacks of books downstairs and put them on the shelves (and discovered that I can reach the Ks without climbing over anything, so those will go down in the next couple of days, too). As soon as I catch my breath, I will work on making bread and then loading the dishwasher (a matter of only about five dishes). I’ve answered a little more than half of the comments I was planning to deal with, and I haven’t yet picked up The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I've got three or four prescriptions that need to be refilled in the next few days, so I should call those in (hurrah for automated systems! I can actually do that part without spending hours psyching myself up).

Oh, I know what I need to do— I have a week and a half to figure out how Cordelia’s getting to and from that Bat Mitzvah. The friend she was hoping to ride with will be on a flight to Colorado right then, so that’s not an option. There are still other people I can ask, but the most likely to be able to help is the one I think Cordelia’s most reluctant about because the girls haven’t talked in a couple of years (the other girl chose to go to the big middle school while Cordelia stayed at their old school. They were all on sports teams together with the Bat Mitzvah girl and the girl who’s going to Colorado from kindergarten onward, so Cordelia has had rides from this family before. The father coached when she played basketball, and the mother coached and helped out when she played volleyball. It’s just that, in spite of them living less than ten minutes walk away, the girls were never interested in spending time together).