a collection of journal entries for my family regarding my life in china.

Monday, February 16, 2009

My Most Educational Date to Date

So, i went on a "date" the other night with a friend i have known since my bar dancer days named 王英(wang ying)... Or her English name Tinkerbell.... Don't ask. Tinkerbell is a nurse and it so happened that she was working the graveyard shift that night and she invited me to come to the hospital, as she would be the only person in her particular area, and would be quite 无聊 wuliao (bored).
As circumstance would have it, I ended up swinging by around midnight and, as promised, the place was deserted. She had a bit of a cold that night and noticing her cough i inquired, "Isn't it bad to be sick at work coughing into all of these tubes you are testing? She gave me a look to suggest, "They are already sick. How am i going to make them sicker? and Yes, but if you get yourself caught up in all these thought experiments you're never going to get any work done." Fair enough, i thought.
Being surrounded by all of this expensive equipment i couldn't help myself from asking to test a bit of it. Tinkerbell laughed as I gazed in amazement into a nearby microscope and asked if i wanted to see my ownxue (blood). "Heck yeaaah!", i replied. She pulled out a fresh picking needle and with about 15 times more force than necessary penetrated my finger. "What, are you afraid of a little pain?", she says to me. I grumbled a reply.
That night i learned how to say red and white blood cells. 红血球,白血球(hong xue qiu, bai xue qiu). I love learning new words that consist of words that i already know. It makes Chinese really easy that way. That and i learned how to say homocysteine. Pretty dope.
It was confirmed that my blood type is A+ and i marveled like a school boy to see my own red and white blood cells dancing under the miracle of magnification.
Seeing how pleased i was Tinkerbell offered, "You wanna test your pee-pee?" "Heck yeaaah!", was my reply. Armed with a plastic cup and directions to the bathroom I was giddy at the prospect of what could be learned from my urine. Being surrounded by millions upon millions of dollars of equipment (i know as she told me the price of everything surrounding us) i was a little disappointed to be deemed 100% healthy. I thought, "Can't you find anything wrong with me?" I mean c'mon. Do I seem normal to you? I even got a little print out of all my boringly normal results (completely in Chinese of course). In all though it was a lot of fun and as Tinkerbell's total English lexicon can be counted on one hand I, having no other choice, learned a lot of fun new words.
Leaving that night I thought of how great it is to have a friend who is a nurse. It's a hypochondriac's dream really... Not that i am one.... mom! But then a thought occurred to me. "Oh my God, i totally fell into her trap!" This is probably how she filters men! What better method than microscopes and reactive chemicals to test the dateability of a prospect? You cunning little China nurse you. Tinkerbell... if that really even is your real name.
So i think it only fair now that i should be able to see her nude. I mean, she got to see my intimate inner workings! I myself should at least also be able to see something personal. Right? Right????

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