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Only one person came over for our game session last night. The other three people all have colds they didn’t want to share with the rest of us. They also hoped that an early night would help them recover faster.

The three of us ended up playing a cooperative game Scott bought at UCon, Star Trek Panic. None of us had ever played before, so it’s likely we messed up the rules in ways that we didn’t even realize (there’s one way we messed up that we decided to keep for the session because trying to fix it, at the point when we realized, would have been difficult). The game is actually fairly difficult for the players to win. We just barely squeaked through to victory and wouldn’t have if we hadn’t misread the rules.

Cordelia’s homeroom teacher sent out an email this morning to let us know that representatives from some colleges in New England that do summer programs will be at Expo during the time before the eighth graders start presenting. I followed the links in the email, but none of the sites have concrete information about things like cost. I suppose that, if you have to ask about cost, you can’t afford the program.

And we had an actual bird in the house just now. I think it was a sparrow, but it was hugely panicked, so I didn’t get a good look. I opened the back door, and it eventually went out that way. I had to leave the room and wait for the sound of panicked tweeting and the bird banging into the windows stopped because there wasn’t a place I could stand that wouldn’t be too close to the door.

But how on earth did it get in? Scott left three hours ago, and Cordelia left an hour ago. We don’t have windows open because it’s about 35F outside. Even if we did, we have screens. I only started hearing the bird about five minutes before I saw it. I don’t think it came in when someone left and then stayed calm and quiet for a long time. I mean, I like that option better than I like the idea that we’ve got a hole somewhere that it was able to get in through. If a bird that size can get in, a chipmunk or a bat could. (We can’t stop mice because nothing stops mice.) And the hole could get bigger. The bird probably didn’t get in through the attic because there’s no way from the attic down into the house except a well sealed ceiling access.

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So, yes, my doctor agrees that I have tendonitis in all three places where I told her I have it. She gave me some exercises for my Achille’s tendon and referred me to orthopedics for my hands. It’ll take months to get that appointment, so the odds are good that I’ll be recovered by then, but it would suck to still be having problems three months from now and only then start waiting for an appointment. I’m to see if wrapping the ankle helps me walk with less pain, too. I’ll try that this evening when we go to Cordelia’s school.

She also wants me to do a sleep study. The last time I did one was 2000, and I was about sixty pounds lighter then. She thinks, looking at my throat, that I may now have some flavor of apnea and that that’s why I’m always tired. I pointed out that I’ve always been tired, going all the way back to high school when I weighed 125 pounds, and the results of the sleep study in 2000 were quite firm that I didn’t have any breathing issues.

And because there’s some law of the universe that governs when such things arrive, I got a letter from Social Security informing me that I have an appointment to see someone who will evaluate my mental health. Naturally, it was at exactly the same time as another medical appointment I had scheduled. Because of course it had to be. I rescheduled my psychiatrist because I was absolutely certain that would be easier than rescheduling the other appointment.

If there was a way to get out of going to Expo tonight that wouldn’t involve upsetting Cordelia, I’d be so very, very tempted to do it. Maybe I should take an Ativan now instead of waiting until right before we go. I didn't take one before my appointment with my primary care doctor because I knew I'd need it more for this evening. If I'd been taking the bus, I'd have had to anyway, but I can't currently walk that far, so I took a cab.