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Two things of notable interest happened to me today. After returning from the University, Olwyn phoned me and inquired if I had any interest in accompanying her to VMC to donate some good 'ol blood. Having completed this whole "blood giving" process once before, I felt I was no longer a novice and felt up for the challenge!

Things started out well, aside from being rubbed to death with the iodine...

It was going smoothly, a little too slowly though (my RHR was only 66!), so it was determined that I should have the needle pulled out just a smidge. Imagine how elated the nurse was when it started flowing three times as fast, imagine how shocked my body was.

To this day I have never fainted before, but had they not extracted the needle from me, I think it would have been quite the experiance. Olwyn on the other hand, squeezed out the requirements in about 6 minutes, and I could only be reconciled in the fact that last time I beat her full bag versus collapsed vein!

I was also consoled with some apple juice and a piece of chocolate cake....and some cookies....and part of a doughnut.....so the moral of the story is, drink plenty of fluids before donating blood.

Hey, I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere else too???

In other news however, I got to accompany my dad (last minute) as his date in leiu of my mum to some fancy-to-do University banquet at the University ("Faculty") Club. I unfotunatly am still waiting on that 2GB memory for my new camera, so I was unable to take photos. I did some meet and greet with University hierarchy, and the bartender served me wine, despite knowing full well my underage status. I have desided it's against my better interests to sue however, given my future education and my parents' job security.

All in all it was not the way I had planned my friday off, but interesting none-the-less.