by appointment
Ich kann nur von ihnen sprechen, sie aussprechen kann ich nicht.
I can only speak of them, I cannot express them.
A day for running errands in town, for taking care of the routine exams and appointments and all the things (there were only two things) that feel intolerably burdensome (but are probably a privilege, rather than an inconvenience), like going to the dentist and having the dog’s claws trimmed (because she is a delicate flower with dark claws so one cannot see the quick and one only needs to reach the quick once, to have it bleed all over the floor for what feels like hours but is only minutes, a minute, to be willing to hand over the task to someone else for as long as one can afford to do so), and then returning to the desk to work until one is feeling a bit cross-eyed about it all.