I gave blood today!  Unlike jokersamamanticoresome people. :p

It is Day 3 After the Flood (you know the one) and my... thingy... the Red Cross measured was 14.3—whatever this was, my impression was that the cut-off was 12, and when my reaction was \O/ the Red Cross person was like "yeah, I guess you just have really high blood iron" and I was like "uh...."  (The last time I tried to donate was during the latter stage of my period, and it was 11.5 or something infuriating like that, but in any case I am thinking this theory is not correct.)  But actually I haven't eating been lots of leafy greens or red meat lately and I've been drinking (mostly green) tea like it's water, so, who knows?  (Though I had some sausage and de-leaved mustard greens with pasta this morning... last night was a "need to cook before all the stuff in my fridge rots" kind of night.)  So afterwards I had oatmeal raisin cookies and cranberry cocktail and water, and then I went to work.  Uh, I worry a little about work, because we handle the blood of HIV patients there (although I haven't personally done so?), and I will be personally handling the blood of primates infected with SIV (or SHIV?) so I wonder if I will be voiding my eligibility to donate by continuing on in HIV labs? ^^;;;

I may follow this up with a lame unboxing post!  Depends on when the sucker gets named, I guess. :D