April 29, 2006

Last weekend, I was afforded the opportunity to attend a Saturday morning seminar presented by the Electrology Association of N.C. (EANC) A presenter was Susan Anderer of the Illinois School of Electrology. Her primary lecture topic was a new technique known as the "Sequential Inverted Micro-Pulse Led Energy Technique". Obviously, I am speaking as a non professional, but this is an approach using a series of electrical pulses, as opposed to one longer continuous pulse. These pulses last 1/1000 of a second, the blink of an eye. Typically, there are a series of nine pulses, depending upon the coarsness of the hair, or the stage of the growth at which the follicle happens to be. She experimented with as few as six pulses.

I was the subject of a demonstration for the electrologists present, using this technique. This was because I still have what are known as "terminal" hairs. No, this does not mean they grew at the airport. (S'cuse the humor!) Additionally, these follicles were in anagen (growth) stage. It would not be proper for me to judge the effectiveness of this approach, being a layperson. Suffice it to say, the 90 minute presentation, and subsequent demonstration were extremely educational.

Someone thanked me for being the subject. I told them I'm like someone looking for a handout. I'll go anywhere to get a few hairs zapped. Incidentally, Ms Anderer is lecturing at "Be All" in Chicago this June. http://www.be-all.org/


Lastly for now, anyone who knows me also knows I am a Seinfeld fan, which is putting it mildly. I saw 'Capote' recently. I was probably one of the few people yet to see the movie. I wanted to judge for myself if Philip Hoffman deserved his Oscar for best actor. He definitely did. He was awesome. In any case, the actor who played the role of Truman Capote's agent also played the Seinfeld role of Russel Dalrymple, the president of NBC when Jerry and George were pitching their pilot.

I may be wrong on this one, but I could almost swear Perry Smith, one of the killers was the guy who played the Puerto Rican waiter whom George caused to be fired at a restaurant in one episode. George and Kramer went to his apartment and accidently let the guy's cat out. I've googled this one and still can't be certain, but it looked like him.

Then, I had my nails done the other day. This is a salon I've been to a few times and the ladies are quite nice. There was a wonderfully done Seinfeld episode which took place in a chinese restaurant. The gang could not be seated and when they asked how long it would be, the host always said, "oh....five, ten minutes". I swear, the owner, Luan came over and said, "it be......five, ten minutes". True to the script, it was more like twenty minutes. Granted, she was not chinese, but it was close enough. Hey, you take humor in life wherever you can find it.

life's humor, then lows

I was in the library again the other day and found a couple books I wanted to check out. It occurred to me I'd not gotten a library card yet in my name, which is something I need to take care of.

Anyway, I told the librarian this was 'my husband's card'. She scanned in the computer and said, "it looks like he has a $.20 overdue fine". All I had was a ten, so she said, "he can pay it next time he's in".

I thought of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry dates a girl he thinks is too much like him. He says, "I've found who I've been looking for..me. Now I've swept myself off my feet!" Life can be a hoot sometimes.


Then life has it's low points. I wrote at Christmas how excited I was that my daughter and son came over for a visit, after not seeing them in several years. I was hoping my daughter had not come only because she wanted financial help. Unfortunately, the last several months have proved this was the case. It adds sadness to an otherwise wonderful life. She hung up the phone on me the other night, after using not very nice words.

I need to read again what I wrote about letting go, and take my own advice. Not an easy thing to do where your children are concerned....but it's reality.

I went back to that place where my two friends were refused service. Those two young men are either no longer there, or are not working when I go in. As I said, discrimination in any form is unacceptable and must not go unchallenged.