Mortaine’s Blog

From : Black people “loot.” White people “find.”

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please.

Note: Many of these books also have full reviews available in the book review podcast (RSS).

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Blood donation appointment. Tomorrow at 4:15 PM. Go pick up John’s dad at the airport afterwards.

The blood donation appointment lady was like “Eee! You’re a baby donor!” when I called to make the appointment.

My last donation was sometime in July, I think, but it was apheresis, so I can donate whole blood now. And I want to donate whole blood– I don’t do that nearly often enough.

Also, a reminder: blood supplies are again critically low, so if you can donate and you haven’t done so in a while, now would be a good time. There’s a disaster in the US right now, and end-of-summer traffic accidents usually deplete supply anyway. Blood supplies need to get replenished so we won’t be in critical demand all the way until Christmas.

Though, if you’re a Sept. 11th donor (someone who makes a point to donate on Sept. 11), you might be tempted to wait the extra 2 weeks until then. But I’ll point out that Sept. 11 is a Sunday this year, so you might have trouble finding a convenient drive in your area. Better to donate this week, and then you can be all smug at the 9/11 donors and say “oh, well, I donated 2 weeks ago….”

Or any other knowledgeable animal-workers or Louisianites.

I have $30 sitting in PayPal from the July “my cat was on fire” debacle. It is earmarked for an appropriate animal charity.

So.

Hurricane Katrina can’t have been good for some animals.

Where does one donate $$ to be used specifically for animal evacuations/treatment/rehoming in a disaster?

Thanks in advance!