Saturnday, January 24th, 2009

Wow, it's been a long time since I've updated the plasma record. I mean, I've updated the main list to keep track of the numbers, but I haven't done one of these "status reports" or whatever you might call this essay. Plasma blog? I don't know. Who cares.

No, I didn't misspell Saturnday. I put the N in there on purpose. I like Saturn. The planet, not the car. The car is crap. The planet is cool. Ringy. And that's what Saturday is named after, so I put the N back in. Let's move on.

Plugging away at the plasma. I've made quite a bit of money at it. It used to be kind of fun for the first few months. Now it's totally routine. It's not like a chore though, something that I dread having to go and do. I don't mind doing it. The driving there and back is a pain. And days like this morning when it's ten below out. Who wants to go out in that? Thank God for long underwear.

Last week -- or two weeks ago, I can't remember -- when I was screened my temperature was 95.8. The lower limit is 96.0. So I had to wait five minutes and get my temperature taken again. The second time I was at 96.9. So that worked out. It was cold out.

So yeah. Still making money. I read if I'm far enough away from one of the overhead radio speakers spewing some awful FM commercial thing. Otherwise, if it's too loud and I can't read, I put on the radio. Such as today. Radio K, Minnesota Public Radio news, Minnesota Public Radio classical. On Radio K I heard a song by a band called Megazilla which I'm going to have to check out.

It's interesting that in exchange for plasma, Biolife doesn't actually give you money, they give you buying power. You are issued a debit card and when you make a donation they put $20 or $45 onto your card. Then you use the card and never see the money. This concept of skipping the middleman of currency is very strange when you think about it. Pure buying power. Yes, you can somehow find a machine to give you a cash withdrawal, but why would you?

I'm having a hard time getting used to how convenient everything is nowadays.

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