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I spent some more time researching ways of getting to local high schools yesterday. Getting Cordelia’s friend to the school Cordelia’s zoned for is likely to be harder than getting Cordelia to the school her friend is zoned for. Basically, there are only two bus runs that arrive at Skyline before the first bell, and I can’t figure out a way for Cordelia’s friend to reach either bus, a later one, yes, but not either of those. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a way, just that I haven’t found it yet. There are ways for her to get downtown faster, but that particular bus doesn’t go downtown at that time of day. For some weird reason, between 6:30 and 9:30 in the morning, that bus runs between the university’s children’s hospital and Skyline and doesn’t actually go downtown. Later in the day, it runs between the downtown transit center and Skyline. I think there’s a park and ride lot out toward Skyline, so that might be a factor.

Our DVD of Kiki’s Delivery Service has apparently died. Cordelia wanted to watch it, but it started freezing and skipping at about twenty minutes in. I intend to try cleaning it to see if that helps, but I haven’t done that yet (and I’m not optimistic). Other DVDs play fine, so it’s not the player. Which is a relief because I’m not sure we could find another player with the same features now. I’m trying to decide how much of a priority replacing Kiki is. We’ll do it. I just don’t know if we’ll do it soon.

I’m feeling physically just bad enough not to want to do anything that’s not absolutely necessary. I’m not sure if it’s anxiety or if I’ve caught an intestinal bug. Both are plausible. I have just enough mental energy to to do things like researching bus routes without being able to string words together to make fiction. The bus routes thing isn’t quite cat waxing because the information will be useful. It’s just not useful right now.

Scott filled my prescription yesterday. He had to go to Kroger anyway to find something to cook for dinner. He got another pork loin because that was the least expensive option, and he got it in the oven early enough that it was ready to eat by about 7:45, but, of course, I didn’t dare eat it, not until my body settles more.

My sister has some ovarian cysts that may signal a bigger problem, one that would affect my care, too. She also has some uterine polyps, but she says those aren’t a big deal. The cysts may mean that she needs her ovaries and uterus removed. The doctors just aren’t sure yet. She’s mainly focusing on being pissed off at the idea of a fourth major surgery this year. I think, at this point, she’s pretty much assuming she’ll have to go through with that.

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It’s very frustrating. About 2:00 every afternoon, I’m getting really, really tired and wanting desperately to lie down and nap. While Cordelia’s at home this week, I cant do that because she’s taken over our bedroom in order to get the privacy she can’t get anywhere else in the house (her bedroom is out because she can’t really do anything in there without help). Next week, she’ll be back at school, but 2:00 is too late in the day for me to nap when I need to be out the door to go pick Cordelia up by 3:00.

I’m not convinced that caffeine is the answer. Admittedly, the last few days, things have been skewed by my only daring to eat crackers and pasta and similar things. Those don’t tend to help me stay awake at all.

I just checked the timing of the upcoming field trips for Cordelia’s class, and one of them conflicts with PT, so she’ll have to miss the field trip. That one, fortunately, isn’t the one being used as the springboard for a huge graded project. The one she’ll miss is a trip to the local food bank. I would like her to be able to, and I’m going to see if I can talk the school into letting her go with the other advisory group which will go on a different day.

Of course, the other field trip is problematic, too, because I don’t know how much walking will be required to get there. They’ll be taking the city bus, and I don’t know how close the bus stop is to their destination. Cordelia would be okay with a block or two, probably, but beyond that, things start getting a lot murkier. She might be fine; she might not. I just don’t want her getting stuck in the middle of street somewhere without the wherewithal to get home. Also, that field trip is the day before her first PT appointment, so I can’t ask the therapist about it. This particular field trip is important because it’s an expedition to interview some people in a retirement home with the intention of writing biographies of them. I have no idea how to get that part of things for Cordelia if she can’t go. Maybe she and I go by cab and meet her class there?

Bearing in mind that I’ve discovered that Google maps is terribly, terribly unreliable when it comes to bus route planning, I think, based on that ride planner, that she can probably manage the walking involved. Well, assuming they take the #1 to the #16 which seems to stop very close to their destination (Google says two minutes walk from the stop to the destination). Any other route suggested by Google maps would involve more walking than she can do.