Re: No Gays Allowed: Yeah, that's the same here. (I didn't need to translate that bit -- mostly 'cause it looks like English and the situation is familiar). Do they ask you if you've ever taken (illegal) drugs with a needle?
Re: Lesbians don't exist: Snrk. Yeah. :-P (Which leads to the question: If I have slept with (a) men, and (b) people who are the same sex as me... Does that make me a double-risk? Um... ;-)
(Ah! So 'doch' is 'but'! Yay! :-)
what is 'ubrigens'? :-) I think it babelfished as 'by the way'. Is that so?
Re: low iron content: Oh, bugger. Well, that explains the pale. :-) Eat... what is it... amaranth (I think). And leafy greens. Possibly I'm misunderstanding this, but: Are you saying that your iron levels are so low that you've stopped menstruating?? (I'm really, really hoping I read that wrong). <*is now worried about you
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Do they ask you if you've ever taken (illegal) drugs with a needle?
They ask you if you've ever taken any drugs at all (but people seem to get away with some past recreational drug use), but I think there was some extra needle question somewhere else. It was a little confusing.
(Which leads to the question: If I have slept with (a) men, and (b) people who are the same sex as me... Does that make me a double-risk? Um... ;-)
No. Because clearly, as a woman, you can't be anything but straight, according to the questionnaire.
Übrigens: 'by the way', or 'other than that', or 'also...' :D
My iron content isn't dangerously low, um, or she wouldn't want me to come back, even with iron pills (well, I hope). And I have certainly not stopped menstruating :D That sentence said that I shouldn't come in while menstruating, 'cause that'd mean even lower iron content and even less of a chance of meeting the requirements.
Question: Why are you giving blood/plasma if it scares you and is a horrible place? (Seriously. I'm curious as to your
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Re: Menstruation: Okay, good. <*sigh of relief*> Glad to hear that. :-)
Re: Money: Ah. They don't do that in Canada. You might get a cookie and/or juice here, but not money. :-)
Re: Real food: Mmm... Lentil soup... (and bread and chocolate, fo course. But it's snowing and mucky and bitterly windy out right now, and I just got home, so the thought of hot soup is definitely on my 'Oh, yum' list right now. :-)
Re: Questionnaire: Eugh. Stupid questionnaire. (Although, clearly, this has already been established. :-)
Re: Ubrigens: Hee! What a handy word. I think "like" is a bit, er, like that, in English. :-) Whee! :-D (I am rediculously chipper right now, and I honestly don't know why. Possibly it has to do with looking at pin-up girl posters from the 20s or 30s, and getting bitten by the fashion bug -- I now want to draw! And sew! (by hand, 'cause my machine is broken) -- as a result. :-)
Mmm... Soup and Bread and Chocolate. :-) (What a soul-satisfying meal! Wow! ... What is with this giddiness, today? :-)
I *have* photoshop. I just have serious trouble getting it to do what I want.
I think it's the whole 'layers' thing. I actually miss the 'paint shop' program (earlier version of 'paint') from my freaking 486. Because I could erase specific colours that way -- so if I wanted to turn black into, say, navy-blue (for the purposes of outlining something black) I'd just 'erase' it to a different colour, and none of the other colours would be effected. Plus I could copy something multiple times just by clicking on the object and hitting the space bar. And I could cut out an object and actually not have it cut out inside a freaking square (what the hell?), and if I moved it over something else, I didn't end up with irritating white outlines around it or something, it just moved into its new position, more or less as though it had always been there. And it was easy! <*whines plantively*> Why can't they be easy anymore Latin_Doll? Whyyyyyyyyyy?
But I think you can cout out an object by using the wand thingy?
Also, I'm biased towards shiny programmes. My one Photoshop experience was during an internship in graphic design, and I could use the combined resources of several high-end computers there. Which was totally awesome.
Why can't they be easy anymore Latin_Doll? Whyyyyyyyyyy?
Because then you get pictures that look like they were easy to make?
Wand thingy? Huh? (Clearly I have to investigate this more fully).
Re: Shiny Programs: Yes, they're lots of fun. :-) When you have some idea of what you're doing. ;-)
Because then you get pictures that look like they were easy to make? Er... No? :-) Then you get pictures that *look* like they were hard to make (when you can draw with any sort of skill, at least) but actually were easy. :-) See? So helpful that way. :-)
But... it's like drawing with a blunt pencil all the time. It's all right as long as you don't want to bother with details and claim that you were going for that impressionist feeling all along, but with sharpened pencils you can choose the outcome.
There's things that you *can't* achieve without, say, layers. Even if, to the layman, the layers thing seems like the most ridiculous and overly complicated function ever had in a graphics program.
Like when you want to colour things in a certain way without also colouring other things in the same spot. Or when you want to make things half transparent so that other things can shine through and afterwards you decide you didn't want that transparent after all. There's some really awesome stuff to be done with layers, but I fail at explaining, and also at colouring things on the computer, so.
Or when you want to make things half transparent so that other things can shine through and afterwards you decide you didn't want that transparent after all.
Oh, cool. :-D
(You do not fail at explaining, by the way. Those examples worked just fine. :-) I just need to figure out how to switch between layers now. :-)
Re: Lesbians don't exist: Snrk. Yeah. :-P
(Which leads to the question: If I have slept with (a) men, and (b) people who are the same sex as me... Does that make me a double-risk? Um... ;-)
(Ah! So 'doch' is 'but'! Yay! :-)
what is 'ubrigens'? :-) I think it babelfished as 'by the way'. Is that so?
Re: low iron content: Oh, bugger. Well, that explains the pale. :-) Eat... what is it... amaranth (I think). And leafy greens.
Possibly I'm misunderstanding this, but: Are you saying that your iron levels are so low that you've stopped menstruating?? (I'm really, really hoping I read that wrong). <*is now worried about you ( ... )
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They ask you if you've ever taken any drugs at all (but people seem to get away with some past recreational drug use), but I think there was some extra needle question somewhere else. It was a little confusing.
(Which leads to the question: If I have slept with (a) men, and (b) people who are the same sex as me... Does that make me a double-risk? Um... ;-)
No. Because clearly, as a woman, you can't be anything but straight, according to the questionnaire.
Übrigens: 'by the way', or 'other than that', or 'also...' :D
My iron content isn't dangerously low, um, or she wouldn't want me to come back, even with iron pills (well, I hope). And I have certainly not stopped menstruating :D That sentence said that I shouldn't come in while menstruating, 'cause that'd mean even lower iron content and even less of a chance of meeting the requirements.
Question: Why are you giving blood/plasma if it scares you and is a horrible place? (Seriously. I'm curious as to your ( ... )
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Re: Money: Ah. They don't do that in Canada. You might get a cookie and/or juice here, but not money. :-)
Re: Real food: Mmm... Lentil soup... (and bread and chocolate, fo course. But it's snowing and mucky and bitterly windy out right now, and I just got home, so the thought of hot soup is definitely on my 'Oh, yum' list right now. :-)
Re: Questionnaire: Eugh. Stupid questionnaire. (Although, clearly, this has already been established. :-)
Re: Ubrigens: Hee! What a handy word. I think "like" is a bit, er, like that, in English. :-) Whee! :-D
(I am rediculously chipper right now, and I honestly don't know why. Possibly it has to do with looking at pin-up girl posters from the 20s or 30s, and getting bitten by the fashion bug -- I now want to draw! And sew! (by hand, 'cause my machine is broken) -- as a result. :-)
Mmm... Soup and Bread and Chocolate. :-) (What a soul-satisfying meal! Wow! ... What is with this giddiness, today? :-)
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I want to see your drawings!
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Re: Drawings.
I have no scanner, so that's a bit of a problem.
But I did manage a drawing wherein the feet are not totally horrible! :-D (Those are the bits I do worst of all, I'm sure of it).
Very pretty buckle-boots that actually look kinda like they might be footwear instead of just, like, tubes. Or something. Er.
I have been trying to reproduce the face, at least, in Paint ('cause I'm so high-tech) --
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Download GIMP from somewhere, it's free, not totally easy to use, and resembles Photoshop in some ways.
These are very nice boots :D
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I *have* photoshop.
I just have serious trouble getting it to do what I want.
I think it's the whole 'layers' thing. I actually miss the 'paint shop' program (earlier version of 'paint') from my freaking 486. Because I could erase specific colours that way -- so if I wanted to turn black into, say, navy-blue (for the purposes of outlining something black) I'd just 'erase' it to a different colour, and none of the other colours would be effected. Plus I could copy something multiple times just by clicking on the object and hitting the space bar. And I could cut out an object and actually not have it cut out inside a freaking square (what the hell?), and if I moved it over something else, I didn't end up with irritating white outlines around it or something, it just moved into its new position, more or less as though it had always been there.
And it was easy! <*whines plantively*>
Why can't they be easy anymore Latin_Doll? Whyyyyyyyyyy?
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Also, I'm biased towards shiny programmes. My one Photoshop experience was during an internship in graphic design, and I could use the combined resources of several high-end computers there. Which was totally awesome.
Why can't they be easy anymore Latin_Doll? Whyyyyyyyyyy?
Because then you get pictures that look like they were easy to make?
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(Clearly I have to investigate this more fully).
Re: Shiny Programs: Yes, they're lots of fun. :-) When you have some idea of what you're doing. ;-)
Because then you get pictures that look like they were easy to make?
Er... No? :-)
Then you get pictures that *look* like they were hard to make (when you can draw with any sort of skill, at least) but actually were easy. :-) See? So helpful that way. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
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There's things that you *can't* achieve without, say, layers. Even if, to the layman, the layers thing seems like the most ridiculous and overly complicated function ever had in a graphics program.
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Really? Like what? :-)
(My drawings tend to be fashion drawings -- not heaps of detail, per seh, at least not in terms of, like, facial shading or something. :-)
<*Bops along to "Hard Rock Hallelujah" despite being sick. Whee!*>
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Like when you want to colour things in a certain way without also colouring other things in the same spot. Or when you want to make things half transparent so that other things can shine through and afterwards you decide you didn't want that transparent after all. There's some really awesome stuff to be done with layers, but I fail at explaining, and also at colouring things on the computer, so.
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Oh, cool. :-D
(You do not fail at explaining, by the way. Those examples worked just fine. :-)
I just need to figure out how to switch between layers now. :-)
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Although it doesn't cut what I want it to cut. But that's okay, 'cause it will at least cut in non-rectangles. So yay. :-)
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