I have tried and failed three times to give blood this month. It has not been thrilling. But thanks to a lot of spinach-- I am learning to like very, very simple salads as well as how to boil eggs-- I pulled it off today. Triple platelets, no complications, drank three pints of calcium-bearing liquid and ate a big handful of string cheeses. ( Read more... )

Gave blood yesterday. I had a new person-- they've been hiring, and I considered applying but I do not really want to be a patient-contact person. I was unthrilled with the newness, minor miscommunications, neither of us knowing the other, and then things went mildly poorly and they only got a single platelet and jumbo plasma.

The tech moved my ( Read more... )

I read two books in February. And so much fic.

Lisa Kleypas, Brown-Eyed Girl. Angela tells me the book contains surprisingly few errors in photography, meaning there's one screwed-up brand name and one misunderstanding of camera modes and who uses them. It's a decent book, though every time the titular eyes came up, I sighed because I have ( Read more... )

It's been a while. Too long of a while, maybe, because I think I've lost some books in here. My beautiful data! Yet I haven't done anything with that data except make drafts of spreadsheets.

The perfect is the enemy of the good and the posted. I'm late for work. Here.

SURPRISE OCTOBER

SK Dunstall, Linesman. I was ready for a ton of ( Read more... )

Gave blood today. Walked there through sleet and ice pellets-- my face was pretty well stung by the time I got there, about twenty minutes late, but it's better to lose my footing on foot than in a car. Then triple platelets, yay! I've said before that giving platelets is a good way to spend a blizzard, with the heated chair, the blankets, the ( Read more... )

my shift key is not working but i have managed to give blood after something like two months' break due to not enough blood and the cough that would not die. triple platelets, read some sh work while i did it. everyone missed me. i also saved the day by remembering the ipad passcode when the blood folks didn't ( Read more... )

I might have forgotten one. I can't tell.

Julia London, The Perfect Homecoming. About what I expected it to be, which was not great but not terrible. Too much, “I am totally not autistic! I just suck at people!” which I will buy because the character really, really doesn’t see the rules she’s been raised by. I will buy it but roll my eyes at ( Read more... )

Wow I did not read much that wasn't Avengers fic.

Frank Warren, The World of Postsecret. Exactly what you’d expect.

Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman, Callender Square. I’ve had Perry recommended to me a couple times, and a historical spousal detective team is right up my alley ( Read more... )

1) Gave blood. Triple platelets. Notable mostly because the phlebotomist doing the stick knew it was iffy, so he kept an eye on it and pulled it before we got too far in. Moved over to another machine, had a completely uneventful donation. Plus, with the rewards program I'm going to get a set of pans ( Read more... )

Did I mention that they changed the blood donation timing? Because now I can go fortnightly. This is useful for me gaining points (likely to spend on a set of pots and pans rather than anything particularly chainsaw-shaped) and also for getting me out of the house in the summer ( Read more... )