#boodle — Public Fediverse posts

Recipe for feeling unglummier:

1. drink lots
2. walk, drinking, to a #lifeblood centre (#wee, you'll need to, see 1.)
3. speak to the #nice person on the desk, say "I don't know what this is all about, but some rando on the internet said it'd cheer me up to #donate #blood or #plasma What do I do?"
4. drink more
5. answer a questionnaire
6. speak to another nice person, who will jab you and talk about "haemoglobin level' (I don't know, google it).
7. drink / wee
8. follow person to a chair beside a machine, you can smile grimly at the other people already connected to machines. They will smile back at you.
9. more chitchat, roll up the appropriate sleeve.
[ Do not look at your arm for the next ten minutes. What happens next hurts a teeny tiny bit. But much less than the end of a relationship, or banging your pinkie toe, or finding out about a papercut by squeezing a lemon carelessly. True. ]
10. be #bored. wiggle your fingers when the machine tells you to.
11. Machine goes #boodle-doodelly-doo, person returns.
[ Return to not-looking state. ]
12. get up
13. Eat pies, and chocolate, drink coffee and flavoured milk. You cannot think about diets after donating. Its A Rule.
14. Walk home #grinning stupidly about what lovely people there are in the world and how easy it is to be one of them rather than to be supporting some Fascist #OrangeShitGibbon.
15. still grinning
16. put post on ridiculously under populated social media site.
17. still grinning.
18. Stream 1970's #Disco Box Set.