Blood Drive
Nov 15 05 | 4:04 am
“Be nice to me, I gave blood today!”
Observe me in the last photo of this movie.
Giving blood is perhaps the most boring way to save a person’s life in the whole world. First you get there and have to sit around for a while reading a list of countries you can’t have been to recently. Then they ask you a bunch of questions about things you’ve been doing since 1977. Then they prick your finger. Disappointingly, you never get to find out what your blood type is. Once that’s all done, you sit around a while more while they wait for a bed to become open. It took me about twelve minutes I estimate to actually give all the blood. Bui did it in 4, Garvey in 5. That’s crazy.
But then the best part comes. They give you juice and cookies to drink. Not only are you a bit woozy from having just had 1.3 pounds of blood removed from you, they induce a sugar high afterwards. I was bouncing off the walls for about 45 minutes before I totally crashed. Erin was kind enough to amuse me by taking me to get food, because I was way too tired to think clearly.
I came home around 4:00, then slept for 90 minutes. Now I have homework until I go to sleep, which might be very soon. I missed some work in school today, and have a lot of work to do anyway, so I’m going to be a bit behind on everything for a while.
I found this on my friend’s away message; I thought it was kinda funny…
Longhorn: noun. A 64-bit recompile of a collection of 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor. Written by a 2-bit company that can’t stand 1 bit of competition.
Comment by jmikeviolin01 — Nov 17 05 | 11:04 pm
^hahah
and greg, in a few weeks you will get a plastic Red Cross card in the mail which will have your identification and blood type on it. And if you are unlucky, you get a notification that you have some disease.
Comment by cobalt — Nov 18 05 | 1:20 pm