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I donated blood today. It was great! Why? So why did I decide to donate blood? Not that a lot of history is needed, but here goes: I participated in a blood drive in high school, like many people do. I found out my blood type, but subsequently forgot it. Wah wah. This was in 2000 or 2001, maybe? Who knows. I don't have much memory of it, to be honest. Since then, many things have happened. Medically, I'm quite lucky. I've been in the E.R., I've had surgery, but I've never nee

Welcome! Although I’ve been writing words on the internet since the days of dialup and ICQ codes, I haven’t had a consistent blog presence since LiveJournal bit the dust. That’s not entirely a bad thing! The early internet was a different internet. Pouring out one’s most personal and mundane details on a blog was normalized, but not commercialized the way it is now. In the intervening years, I like to think I learned to differentiate between my private journal thoughts, my in