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[edenfalling]

I gave blood today, which went well. The Red Cross was set up in the basement of the Baptist church a few blocks from my house, so it was very easy to get to. (There are actually two churches within a few blocks of my house, which I suppose is because my neighborhood -- Fall Creek -- used to be kind of an independent suburb of Ithaca, way back in the day, and it still has traces of a tiny business district, though most of those have faded and it never did get separately incorporated.)

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In other news, I've gotten through all of the Ladystuck Treats archive and am working my way through the main Ladystuck archive by reverse wordcount, which means so far I've looked at a lot of art and read some short comics. There are 191 works in the main archive (though at least one of them is a duplicate, and another is also part of the Treats archive so I'd already seen it there), and I have gotten through perhaps thirty of them.

(I would normally be faster, but I'm trying to comment on every work I open, because I get weird like that about exchanges. Plus I am still dealing with the all-things-Hannibal obsession I mentioned yesterday. *sigh*)

I have a long way to go...

Comments

[heliopausa]

Good for you for giving blood! Did the Baptist ladies provide you with tea and a bikkie afterwards? (which is what happens when the mobile blood bank comes to my rural area in Australia - in the cities it's all pretty standardised, but in the little towns the local Red Cross women take turns to cater, :) And it's all very pleasant! oh, and very gender-specific!)

[edenfalling]

Around here, the Red Cross has a standard snack-and-drink kit that includes bottled water, two types of Ocean Spray fruit juice (cranberry and apple), and Nabisco snack variety packs. These are then supplemented by whatever the sponsoring location/organization decides to provide, which tends to mean a lot of homemade cookies and dessert bars. So I had cranberry juice, a little bag of Cheez-Its, and a brownie. :-)

I'm not sure what more rural areas are like in the recovery snack-and-drink department.