I Vant to Give My Bluuuud
Jul. 9th, 2003 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eseme*sigh* I really do want to give my blood, actually. I used to give blood two or three times a year at local blood drives in high school. It's one of those good things to do that is really very easy and can save someone's life. It's also why I had the little organ donor heart put on my driver's license when I renewed a couple of months ago.
Though if the Red Cross won't take my blood, I'm not sure if anyone will take my organs...
You see, I could be an insane bovine in disguise!
Seriously, if you've lived in England for 3 months or mainland Europe for 6 months since sometime in the 80's, you can't give blood. Ever. As in they won't take your blood for the rest of your life. You might have Mad Cow Disease. Never mind that I was darn near vegetarian the 9 months I lived in England, and I can only recall eating beef about twice.
I learned that the Red Cross still hasn't changed its policy when I went on a walk today and was forced to detour through the SAU due to construction. I passed a faculty/staff blood drive, and would have gladly stopped and given blood if they would take it.
As for good news, much of the nature trails behind RIT have a new thick layer of mulch on them, making everything much less muddy. And today is Wednesday so I got to go pretend to be a bubbly, chipper ferret-creature at World Tree tonight. Yay!
:: A human sized ferret in loose robes starts doing summersaults for the fun of it, gets hopelessly tangled in the robes, and ends up scrambling to her feet, throwing off the annoying fabric, and diving into a nearby pond. Where she changes into a much smaller ferret who looks like nothing so much as a furry water-snake when swimming. Wheeeeeeeee! ::
World Tree may apparently be at Chris' place tonight, which is cool except he *still* has no couch.
Though if the Red Cross won't take my blood, I'm not sure if anyone will take my organs...
You see, I could be an insane bovine in disguise!
Seriously, if you've lived in England for 3 months or mainland Europe for 6 months since sometime in the 80's, you can't give blood. Ever. As in they won't take your blood for the rest of your life. You might have Mad Cow Disease. Never mind that I was darn near vegetarian the 9 months I lived in England, and I can only recall eating beef about twice.
I learned that the Red Cross still hasn't changed its policy when I went on a walk today and was forced to detour through the SAU due to construction. I passed a faculty/staff blood drive, and would have gladly stopped and given blood if they would take it.
As for good news, much of the nature trails behind RIT have a new thick layer of mulch on them, making everything much less muddy. And today is Wednesday so I got to go pretend to be a bubbly, chipper ferret-creature at World Tree tonight. Yay!
:: A human sized ferret in loose robes starts doing summersaults for the fun of it, gets hopelessly tangled in the robes, and ends up scrambling to her feet, throwing off the annoying fabric, and diving into a nearby pond. Where she changes into a much smaller ferret who looks like nothing so much as a furry water-snake when swimming. Wheeeeeeeee! ::
World Tree may apparently be at Chris' place tonight, which is cool except he *still* has no couch.
