gave at the office (needles)...

[jay]

Gave blood this morning... I hadn't realized that it had been over a year since the last time. I'm slipping... lots of travel conflicts with onsite blood drives, I guess. So now I'm sporting a large purple armband... ;).

No flu shot afterward (I was too late), but I'll get one Friday when I have more blood drawn for my annual comprehensive physical (they do complete blood-chemistry and blood-pathogen panels, too, as well as screen for substances). I'd better avoid poppyseed bagels for a few days ;).

Time to catch up on travel vouchers, get my new badge, and then start the next round of proposals (due a week from Friday).

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(nods) It brings up mixed feelings, especially among my friends... it manages to simultaneously trigger both community service (good) and het-privilege (not so good).

Although for females, a given contact with a MSM is a one-year, not permanent deferral (same class as for contact with a sexworker, Haitian or IV drug user).

The rules are not based on medical science, they are politically-manipulated to marginalize groups that the administration and their conservative friends dislike. And it is getting worse, not improving, as viz. the FDA's refusal to abide by their own licensing guidelines for birth control.