I didn't go do plasma at all last week 'coz I wasn't feeling very well and didn't think I had the strength for it. Then earlier this week I was just too busy with stuff, so I went today, the day after Thanksgiving. It was pretty darn busy. I read quite a bit of my Semiconductors book while I waited. It's good when it's busy and you haven't gone in a week or two because then if they have an open machine that they can put you on only if you can use your, say, right arm, then you can tell them you'll take whatever's fastest and it makes things go smoother. Such as today. "Can you use your right arm?" the guy asked me. "Sure." It's like going to a restaurant that has a long wait to get in and you tell the hostess that you'll take smoking or non-smoking, whichever becomes available first.

Sometimes they'll have you cross over. This means that the machine is on your, say, left but they'll stick you in your right arm so that the tube with your blood going out is laying across your abdomen. I've done that a few times. It's a pain because the technician has to switch sides a few times to set the machine up, set your arm up, hit a few buttons on the machine, stick you, move back, etc.