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Don't know if I mentioned this, but I was in a car accident back in February--I'm okay, but I've been without a car for over a month now. For a while it was okay! It is becoming not okay as I am now fighting with bureaucracy on a completely different issue, and I'm running out of things to do around the house. There's a lot in walking distance that makes living life technically painless, but nothing that is really a day-long activity. I can go shopping and buy the necessities but there's only so many times you can walk to the mall or the grocery store. "I'll read a book! Oh right, no way to reach the library." "I'll go to the park! Oh. Hmm. That's too far to walk." "I'll garden! Oh, right, you did everything you needed to yesterday." "I'll play video games. ...No, because then I'll hate myself for wasting time."

Nevertheless, I've played a lot of video games. Except FF14. For some reason I log in and don't care. I've got a month and a half left of paid time but I really don't care. I maxed out my black mage and my options are level another class or... something. So I'm playing GW2 with a friend but wow that big event is reminding me that this is a ridiculously difficult game to get back into and googling for fight strategies (or anything strategies) turns up scanty information.

And what bureaucracy, you may ask?

Well I want to volunteer at the hospital.

Which requires proof that I received the MMR vaccine.

So getting the titer means finding a place that will provide it and getting someone with a car to drive me there (difficult because my parents work and my grandmother's car got smashed up so there is only one car I can use which belongs to a working doctor).

I've been given the run-around on getting the MMR titer--which will cost about $150--but I'm also attempting to track down records from the freakin' 80s/early 90s because I don't want blood drawn, don't want to spend that kind of money to volunteer, and I'm getting stymied at every turn.

Doctor: We don't have that, call the medical records. Also we can't order the titer without you coming in for a check-up.
Medical records: Why would we have that? Call the health department.

Why would I call the health department? They certainly won't have it.

My family doesn't have it because I'm done with school and who needs proof of vaccination once school is over?

So I called my school and am waiting to hear back. Then I called my college because maybe they have it! Well they might, but it's spring break so there's no one in the health center to check until next Monday.

I've been bouncing around on this for a freaking week. I was just like "screw it, I'll get the vaccine again!" and went to get it because unlike the titer, any clinic will do it, but was told that it was risky because it's a live virus. So we put in a call to a doctor to find out if this is true.

The irony if this all is that a few months ago I vowed to keep all records of all bureaucratic dealings because you never know if twenty years down the line it'll show up to bite you in the ass. So what happens? I need vaccination records from twenty years ago.

Now, I've volunteered for the hospital before, and I never needed this vaccination record. I know this is because anti-vaxxers kids are now coming of age and wanting to go candy-striping, and since MMR is the anti-vaxxer boogey man, that's the one they want proof of.

Is there anything that Jenny McCarthy isn't ruining for the rest of us?