Yet another interesting day, note the invisible inverted commas around interesting. I had my second consultation today with a different plastic surgeon in Coconut Grove. He was quite sold on the "expansion" technique which sounded plausable, and aesthetically pleasing, though the bill of $7500 rather put me off. It was helpful nonetheless, because it's assisting me in deciding what I want, I hate the deliberate "fake" look of a lot of augmentations, and have decided to opt for a regular "C". Both surgeons have said that because of my larger than usual chest, I'm looking at a LOT of saline, somewhere between 500-600 mL in each, contrast that with the average of around maybe 350 mL, and you can see why I am being cautious. Considering however that I now actually am earning "disposable" income as opposed to living from pay-day to pay-day, I don't really want to spend it on a whole lot. This is evidenced by the increasing number of credit applications which say "We can't lend you the money because you don't have enough credit history". How one goes about creating a credit history when you don't want to spend money is left as an exercise for the reader.
At the moment I'm wondering whether I should make a third appointment with a different doctor. Today at the lab, my supervisor came down with the flu or something, so he went home early today, and the Chinese grad student flew back to China because of an illness in the family, so the lab is actually really quiet. I spent most of the day working on a column, carefully trying to seperate out each complex in a mixture, as always being told "Well, we actually do this special trick... what didn't anyone mention that?".
Today was actually rather weird, with no-one but myself in the lab for the whole day, I felt a mixture of freedom and boredom. I presume that my supervisor will be back tomorrow and so things will be somewhat back to "normal". I'm still trying to figure out where the week has gone, but I guess things have been so disjointed that I haven't really noticed it passing. I called Peta earlier in the week, she sounded pretty exhausted which is not unexpected, I just hope she is feeling somewhat better now.
Ahhh... the weekend is here again, time to clean, plan and plot. I went down to Coconut Grove for the third time this morning, for exactly the same reason as the last two visits (plastic surgery consultation in case you haven't been keeping up). This was not significanty different to the previous consultations, though the price was more acceptable, $4200. I wondering whether I should try my credit union for a loan, I know they won't give it to me for surgery (what's to repossess?), but I might tell them that I'm buying into the american economy and getting some electronic goods or something. Who knows, I may be turned down regardless.
Ugh... *tear* *sniffle* Well, this is rare I admit. Allison sent me a copy of the script she is going to shoot, and in a lot of ways it pulls at a sore spot in my heart. We're hoping that she can get everything together and shoot in the next month or two before it gets too hot to work in the desert where she'll be shooting. It means a lot to her, and therefore means a lot to me, so I've been trying to help out where I can, checking web-sites, asking questions and so on.
10:15 pm - Just back from "Ocean's 11" which was formulaic, but since I already knew that, I wasn't too dissapointed. The rest of the evening will probably be spent writing, reading and enjoying the rain-strewn evening. I never cease to be amazed at the hordes of young people at the Sunset Mall. I dislike crowds, so coming out the movie into this sea of people was unenjoyable. I'm not sure why they congregate there, but it could simply be that for once I am close to a popular hub of activity. Given that the majority of people seem to under 18, I'm guessing the people who can legally get into nightclubs and have transport (i.e. cars) go to the more hip locale of South Beach.
I've been meaning to look up the local Community College here in case they have any courses which I'd like to take. The community colleges fill in for the fact that most people can't afford the exorbitant cost of University education. I don't know what I'll find, but there might be something that interests me, I just have to think of new and inventive ways of finding what I like to do.