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[azurelunatic]

Oxygenated emergency "blood replacement" medicine trial! Wow, that sounds all kinds of medical awesome. Risky, duh, but medical awesome!
"What do you mean, 'revenue loss', you BS-artists?"
The Register on Rumsfeld

Once upon a time, boojum and I were having a random e-mail conversation involving fertility. She mentioned that the consistency of one's vaginal fluids are a good indication of fertility -- when the fluids are clear and stretchy like that clear and stretchy snot, then one is most fertile. "Does that mean one's mind is most fertile when one's snot is clear and stretchy like vaginal fluid?" I quipped. I was, of course, subject to the usual penalties for such a comment...

Work was nice. I worked on the usual spreadsheets in the morning, fixed some stuff that I'd screwed up a little later on, and was out of there by 2 because there was not enough for me to do and it was Friday and Friday is one of those days where you can bugger off early as long as stuff is done and you've a decent amount of hours in, which I had.

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[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that is medically exciting. I'm about to head in to donate tomorrow, [begin tangent] and I'm starting to wonder if I should ask about donating platelets or plasma or something instead of whole blood, since my iron sucks so bad and I could probably use it back when they're done. I know you give plasma: what's that like? How does your body react afterwards and such?[end tangent]

[azurelunatic]

I've done it so long that I'm used to compensating; it's the sort of thing that just gets factored into my schedule. I don't of course plan on anything like heavy lifting, and I definitely need to get my blood sugar back up, but other than that and needing to drink more water, I really don't notice many effects if I get it in the right part of my schedule. It's exhausting if I schedule it wrong, but if I don't need to have very much in the way of bouncing around or active thinking, I'm fine.

[pauamma]

One should be careful not to get snarky with boojums.

[azurelunatic]

...in strict point of fact? At that point in time, boojum was a snark. I can't remember the domain name, and wouldn't say it in public if I did, but her e-mail address was snark@ something...

[pauamma]

/me softly and suddenly vanishes away.