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I hung out with Deepali, Vicki and Cynthia on Saturday night, and we watched Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (which I'd actually seen before). It was fun just hanging out and relaxing with the girls.

Marc went to the Giants' game on Sunday, so I pretty much sat around by myself, playing Call of Duty: World at War on the XBox. I am a lazy slob, I admit it. I actually really like the campaign modes on the CoD games - I find Gears of War too scary sometimes, lol. I prefer to fight against normal, "living" humans. Forget any games with zombies, I don't even touch those.

On the IVF front, we had our consult with the new doctor yesterday. I kind of thought it would be just a formality - us doing our due diligence and such - but it was actually quite interesting and informative. He had a different opinion as to how he would proceed with our next cycle, and what he felt went wrong with our first. His thought was that he'd want to go back to our first protocol, because I had such a good response (I made 25 eggs when the average for my age is 16). He felt that the stimulation just went on for a day or two too long - in essence, we "overcooked" the eggs (dare I say, scrambled eggs?).

The downside is that he uses a different lab for the genetic testing - he actually works with our current lab, but for different tests. He prefers this other lab for our type of test because they've been doing it longer. I don't know how long it would take them to get a test ready for us though, considering it took our other lab over two months to do it. Having to wait all that time again would be agony.

We're going to set up a consultation with this other lab and get more info though. In the meantime, I'm hoping I can talk to my current doctor sometime this week to talk about all this and see what she thinks. It would be great if we could go back to the first protocol, mostly because of the greater number of eggs, which would stack the odds more in our favor. The big unknown, of course, is quality.

I did like this doctor though, at least from just speaking to him on the phone (he was actually familiar with the kind of work I do, and one of the blood tests he wanted to do was something I could TOTALLY do myself, lol, if I could just get someone to draw my blood). He seemed nice and was very informative.

On the TV front, I finally cancelled our DVR's season pass for "Heroes." I just can't bring myself to care anymore. Sad for a show that I loved in its first season. If the season turns out to be any good, I can always just rent it on DVD. We did watch "House" last night, and I gotta say, I could go with less shots of Foreman shirtless. Not that Omar Epps is lacking in the six-pack department, but there is something about his body type that I find unappealing. Also, he's boring. I did enjoy the House-Wilson-Cuddy scenes though. The show needs more Wilson.

Looks like Jon is off "Jon and Kate Plus 8". Not really surprising, there have been rumblings about TLC's unhappiness with him for a while now. The show's just going to be "Kate Plus 8" now, which it kind of has been recently anyways. They oughta just cancel the damn thing entirely.

I'm actually doing something on the reading front, and making progress in "The Stand." I've been spending a lot of time at the lab at the VA, so when I'm just sitting there monitoring the machine I've been reading. It's pretty good so far (I did watch the miniseries, so I'm prepared to be underwhelmed by the ending). It was funny though, because I was sitting there thinking about what if something like that actually happened, where this massive plague started spreading around, and how it's like probably my second biggest irrational (or is it?) fear after zombies. And right at that moment, someone in the lab started coughing. I almost jumped out of my seat.

Work, in the meantime, has been a bit annoying at times. I'm totally grateful to have a job for the next few months, but my role at work is a bit nebulous right now, since I have no real long-term project, and my boss is pretty much just having me do whatever tasks she doesn't have time to take care of herself. It's hard to get motivated for doing stuff like cleaning lab space and moving equipment. At least when I was doing it earlier this summer, I had some sense of ownership of the lab and my equipment - here I'm just taking care of other peoples' junk and it's kind of lame. On top of that, for the work that I'm still doing that I actually enjoy, the people I have to deal with now are super annoying. They're giving me aggravation that I really shouldn't have to endure considering I'm halfway out the door.

Oh well - things overall at least have been a little less stressful. I'm keeping myself happy just thinking of all the things I'm going to do once I'm "retired."