bloodletting

5:38 p.m. - 2002-11-22

I'm still alive. Barely. This is what I get for giving blood when I'm bored. I'm not anemic, thank heaven, but my temperature and blood pressure are both disconcertingly low.

Disconcerting to me, anyway. The nurse laughed, said, "Wow, you're dead," and waved me on. When it was over, I had ten minutes to get to class, so I very intelligently ran up to my third-floor room, inhaled the paint fumes currently wafting about thereat, ran back down the stairs, did it all over again after class, and then proceeded to collapse on the floor.

I assume I did, that is, as that's where I was when I woke up. I also have a vague recollection of arguing with a lad from my stagecraft class about presaging democracy and Parisian prison life. I'll have to look him up tomorrow and find out if it actually happened.

Adieu.

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