The Test and The Blizzard

This morning we had a new aide, Grace, but we were rushed with the coming snow, so David skipped his shower, and we ran off to Rusk for Speech Therapy.  When we arrived Maneshka met us to let us know that Oxford still hasn’t approved OT, which was scheduled after Speech.  I was a bit bummed and thought that the idea of making two trips in the snow/rain for only Speech and Physical Therapy was not making me happy.  We had a very good ST session.  She was good at her word and we talked about progressive education, and one of the “progressive” schools in Washington that she had on her list was St. Alban’s.  This made both of us laugh.  David assured her that St. Alban’s is not what anyone would consider progressive, least of all anyone who sent their son there!

Anyway, we asked about whether they would cancel PT at 2pm if the snow was looking really bad, and they said we should go up and see what they said on the PT floor, so we headed up.  The receptionist said that unless we wanted to cancel, it would be happening, but then added, there are lots of folks canceling, and did we want to see if Caroline had an opening?  She checked, and she did!!!  What good fortune.  We went in and did our half hour session, which was good, and even got a half hour of gym!  Then out to the sleet and slush, and finally home!

Then we had some lunch and I got on the phone with Oxford, and they said that they had approved the PT yesterday.  Ships passing in the night.  I got a call from both Maneshka and Caroline that it was all straightened out within a half an hour.  Then, Judy, the afternoon aide showed up, and I left at about 1:30 in the snow for Lexington and 32nd Street for the Foreign Service Officer’s Exam.  I am not sure if there were cancelations but it was pretty full, and it took a while to get processed, because the monitor was answering the phone pretty regularly with folks who were scheduled for tomorrow.  “You will have to call the 800 number to check what the status is” and she would patiently give them the number.  I gave her a lot of credit for her patience and good humor.  I am sure she would have loved to have been on her way home!
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So, I got started a little after my 2pm scheduled start, and was done in a little more than two hours.  I don’t want to jinx anything, but I think I did well.  Can’t go into details, but I will say that in the essay I worked both the United Nations and Edmund Burke in, in honor of David!!  Well, they actually worked themselves in, but I felt good about it.  Also sat in cubicle #9, which is one of my favorite numbers.  Who knows.

Got home, and the aide was with David, and they were both excited to hear my story of the test.  She made an early start to get home in the snow, and I am now sitting here watching the city being covered in snow and hearing the plows scraping down Fifth Avenue.  David is asleep, but not after my reading of the blog, the latest object, the Lothair Crystal (a story of an attempt at divorce in Carolingian Europe) and saying “congratulations”.