I came, I saw, I got the t-shirt

I had a good meeting this afternoon with a colleague in another department. It turns out I probably won't have to do the Big Scary Analysis with Perchloric Acid (anyone who has had much chem experience will tell you that avoiding perchloric acid is A Good Thing.)

There was a blood drive on campus. I went, but my reasons were partly selfish:
1. I am very very very needle phobic and I am slowly trying to desensitize myself so I don't freak the poor nurse out every time I go in to get a flu shot or a tetanus booster. Frankly, I think the shots are harder on the people giving them than they are on me. Giving blood involves a needle. So, it's like free desensitization therapy. (It's also a free anemia test, and the OK Blood Institute also sends out cholesterol results so it's a free, but not totally accurate, blood cholesterol test as well).

2. I got a free t-shirt that I can use to flaunt my blood-donor status to the world. (Although now I'm thinking I should have asked for an XXL or XXXL if they had them so I could use it as a big giant nightshirt. Oh well.). And it's a cool t-shirt, too.

(and yes, I'm still doing a Hypocrisy-Scan (tm) of this considering my comments about people bragging on their charity knitting this morning. The results are not back yet.)

And now, home. I'm going to carbo load with pasta this evening to make up for the blood they took out. mmmmm pasta.