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[the_rck]

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.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Getting kids to school shouldn't be so hard. There's an assumption that everybody drives/has access to a car.

[the_rck]

To be fair, if each girl went to the school for which she's districted, transportation would be easy. My daughter would have either a twenty minute ride on a school bus or a forty minute ride on the city bus with one transfer. Her friend would either walk for half an hour to forty minutes or take the city bus for part of that trip. She lives too close to the school for the district to provide busing. If I were her parents, I'd opt for the city bus because that covers the part of the walk that goes along a very, very busy street that she'll have to find a way to cross if she's on foot.

It's just that they want to go to the same high school, and that's a lot harder.

[ramenkuri.livejournal.com]

Gah, totally feel your sister's frustration!

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your sister. That's a frustrating health issue.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Hugs to your sister.

Everybody complains about getting to Skyline by its early start time.

Possibly worth taking into account: They changed around the start and end times for all the schools this year, so I suppose they could do that again next year too. Also, this year the schools forgot to tell the city bus company about the change, so all the city buses were arriving and departing on the old schedule, which no longer matched up with the starting/ending times of the schools. It was a mess, and still isn't fully worked out I don't think.

[the_rck]

The city buses would be hard pressed to adapt. Everything depends on all the routes reaching and leaving Blake Transit Center at 18 minutes past the hour and 12 minutes to the hour. There are only two or three routes that run more often.

Or were you talking about them running extra buses, just during the peak times?

I just find it weird that the only bus that goes to Skyline doesn't go to Blake where it would be easy for students to catch it. As far as I can tell there's no good way to get to that bus if you don't happen to live near the route.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

I am not sure of the details of how the relationship between the city bus system and the school system works; I just know that a few years ago AAPS cancelled some schoolbus routes and said that the kids should take the city bus to school instead -- and I think there was some arrangement with the bus system to have buses that would come and go from the schools at appropriate times.

The people who I know who go out-of-area to Skyline go up to near the hospital at some insanely early hour of the morning to catch the city bus that goes from there to Skyline.