Post your random thoughts.

I scare the blood donation nurses because in my mind its nbd.

small spider, level 10 freakout. blood? meh.

and be glad you aren't a 'water taster'

edited 27th Jan '15 9:13:23 PM by river_raven

I'm not allowed to give blood because of potential Mad Cow in my blood.

...and The Gay should I get lucky.

Apparently the cursive on the SATs is to compare a child's handwriting to an adult's.

If I write perfect cursive I am not ready to take the test.

The things that people were yelling outside my house tonight scared me.

Living in the ghetto is scary. *shiver*

Oh geeze.

I don't live in "the ghetto" but my neighbourhood is pretty bad, and man is it really terrifying sometimes. If it's not random gunshots, it's someone yelling or people screaming and... yeah.

... Why did I want to not be evicted again?

I shouldn't have said that. Where I live isn't the ghetto. It's a really bad neighborhood in the older and lower class part of town.

But the thing that woke me up tonight was two people arguing. One person said something something about owning the drug game here and having a gun. I hope nobody got hurt.

edited 27th Jan '15 11:42:38 PM by RobotPrincess

I'm definitely familiar with that sort of thing.

There are so many drug dealers around here, I almost wish I did drugs. Such wasted opportunity.

I can't donate blood even though I'm O+ because my veins are too small and the needle is too big. One time the nurse was trying to draw blood from me and he had to use a butterfly needle. Whenever I need blood drawn I tell the technician to use a butterfly but they don't believe me and I end up with holes in both arms before they give up.

why would they not believe you? thats just stupid overconfidence on them. I wish there was a way to get a 'standard care' sheet from a GP with stuff like that on it to keep doctors aides and CN As from 'assuming' they know more than the patient about the patient's body.

my friend always has issues with doctor's aides and the like not believing the severity of her medical issues and that she's not just being 'overly dramatic'.

Unfortunately, many doctors aren't the best when it comes to, uhm, respectfulness and communication. I'll do my best to not end up like that...

I've actually got good veins, but cannot donate blood due to the weight limit - I'd really like to, though.

Another random thought: One of our lecturers - an attending thoracic surgeon, which is pretty fancy - used comic sans for his power point presentation. Is it wrong that I feel upset by this?

edited 28th Jan '15 4:04:32 AM by Elva

Elva's unfortunately right - I for example have many little things wrong with me, and it's taken me quite some time to find a doctor who'd listen to me, and go from there.

One example is bone issues as a result of genetic disorders - he understood what was meant with my disorder, and has taken the time to sort it out before it gets worse.

If you have to go around to find the right doctor for you, then do so if you can. I know not everybody has that luxury, but I needed to and found the right doctor eventually.

@Elva I hate when people use Times New Roman. It's so hard to read!

Today I walked up a steep hill in gale force winds. Fun fun fun.

I tried giving blood twice. The first time my iron was too low and the second time my iron was -barely- at the acceptable level so they let me do it and I almost passed out.

Other than the iron thing I don't have anything that'd prevent me from donating,

Hi, friends! ^▽^

Hey Bro

@Tolkien Otaku, mmm, is that something you have to do regularly? If so, you'll get used to it in time

One thing they don't often mention about regular blood glucose testing is that if done enough on the fingers, you eventually permanently disfigure your fingerprints after about a decade of it.

Around fourteen years ago, I was a fairly regular blood donor, but then they started having difficulty finding a vein in my arm. Then I had that issue where my heart would stop briefly then start again, and I haven't donated since.

On another note: I'm getting myself confused having both the dev and normal sites up.

edited 28th Jan '15 9:53:26 AM by TheUnsquished

Discussion in my math class today.

Teacher: "What is that movie, where the animals go to Madagascar?"

Random Student: "..Lion King?"

That's so reminiscent of those programmes that are nothing more than a selection of the dumb answers quiz show contestants give.

@carbon-mantis: No. It just came up in conversation with my family.

I'm reading about Catman, for no readily apparent reason.

What's with these backslashes all of a sudden?

Parser got fucked up in the update. Was bound to happen when the site was already held together with duct tape, bailing wire, and prayers.

And there was already a parser issue with the emoticon markups not working in OPs.

edited 28th Jan '15 12:57:15 PM by Sixthhokage1

Back from the hospital! Chest X-ray came back normal, and waiting on results from some of the tests, but they've got me on some anti-biotics and we're hoping that will make things better. cough is still going strong, can't get more than three words out before I cough unless I'm singing, for some reason. I can get through all of "Little Wonders" without coughing. good thing, because my audition is tonight.