The C-word....no, not that one

The next few days were rest and work as usual. Well, not totally as usual, nothing ever will be again, but still. I'm becoming obsessed with knowing everything possible about breast cancer and doctors and tests and so on. That does make it difficult to get work done. I'm also struggling with whether or not to tell my community college students what's going on. I decide against it, but tell them that I am having issues, and so will be giving them an open book test next week. That way, I don't have to worry about teaching as much, (since I can't seem to concentrate on anything but cancer information anyway). At my other job, in between work, I search the internet for any information I can get my hands on. When I got to Oxford for work on Wednesday, my car (C-word) was acting funny. I saw a girl getting into her car, and when I saw that she was in fact leaving, I put mine in reverse to give her a bit more room for backing out. Nothing happened. Put it in drive, nothing. Car off and on and reverse and drive and still nothing. FINALLY got it to work in drive, but someone had already taken that spot, so I inched my way to the next closest parking lot and pulled in the first spot I could. Went to work and when it was time to leave (around 5), I had already called Cody to tell him that he may have to drive all the way to Oxford to pick me up. While on the phone with him, he has me check the transmission fluid (fine). So I try the car again, after warming it up, and as I put it in reverse, it moves forward. Not far enough to hop the curb, but now the hood is completely situated on top of a bed of pine needles. When Cody gets there, he puts it in reverse, and it moves backwards. (I just knew that was going to happen.) Then he puts it in park, closes the hood, and tries reverse again. Nothing. (Thank goodness, or else I would have really felt like an idiot.) So we look at each other and just laugh. What else is there to do?? We get in his truck and drive home (by way of Chili's for dinner). Of course my car would break down now. I'm not sure why I would have expected anything else.