full first draft of "Laser 2"

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-I got my second laser treatment on Tuesday! This in the evening after pleading guilty in the morning to one count of missing registration and one count of missing insurance in _The People of the State of "Oregon" vs. "Mark T. Saotome-Westlake"_ (a sobering reminder of the importance of sending in one's renewal paperwork on time).
+I got my second laser treatment on Tuesday! This in the evening after pleading guilty in the morning to one count of missing car registration and one count of missing insurance in _The People of the State of "Oregon" vs. "Mark T. Saotome-Westlake"_ (a sobering reminder of the importance of sending in one's renewal paperwork on time).
 
-I took the "MAX" train to the nearest stop and walked to the area where the laser parlor/clinic/salon is, but I was quite early
+I took the "MAX" train to the nearest stop and walked to the area where the laser parlor/clinic/salon is (finding a twenty (!) on the sidewalk along the way—efficient market hypothesis refuted!), but I was quite early, so I took some time to browse the local shops.
 
+The variety store had these little nylon–polyester flags, not just for countries, but also the various Pride identity flags—and not only the famous ones like the rainbow flag and the the trans pride flag, either, but also really obscure ones that I wasn't previously aware of, like the leather pride and bear pride flags. (It was the part of town where this was entirely unsurprising.)
 
+No [AGP flag](https://4archive.org/board/lgbt/thread/8628058/attached-image-is-the-agp-pride-flag-black-represents-the-r), obviously. (Someday ...)
 
-(... it's just that part of town.)
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+I went to the bookstore I visited [last time](/2017/Nov/laser-1/). They had instrumental Channukah music playing. I took notice of one of the little flyers taped in the window of the front door, for a local trans writer's workshop. (Again, that part of town.) "Rules: No jerks. No cis people. That's all," it said. I noticed that I was genuinely uncertain as to whether I would count as zero, one, or two of those things.
 
 I bought a paperback of Laura Jane Grace's memoir _Tranny_ (research for the blog, I told myself) and a copy of the November/December issue of _Poets & Writers_ ([professional development](/2017/Nov/the-blockhead/) for the blog, I told myself).
 
+The laser place was running about fifteen minutes behind schedule, but otherwise, my session went about as expected. I closed my eyes and took deep breaths to steel myself against the rhythmic intrusions or the laser blade jabbing at my face.
 
-laser blade jabbing at my face
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+The nurse-technician asked how the pain was.
 
 "Worth it," I said.
 
@@ -26,5 +26,4 @@ She asked me to rate the pain from one to ten.
 
 ["Two,"](TODO: link XKCD on this) I said.
 
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 I fear that it's _still_ going to take a number of further sessions to _really_ make a dent in my beard density. But soon, _soon_ ... ! (To be continued 24 January 2018)