It just hurts for a little while

[ellestra]

This morning I went to give blood for the testing. The worst part was to remember not to eat or drink anything but water for 12 hours since I usually do at least drink a lot of tea, especially in the morning. But since I went to Campus Health I decided to also do the vaccinations. I got flu one in one arm and pneumococcus in another. Now they both hurt. Pneumococcus one more. Good I asked to get in in the left arm. I can barely move it. I love vaccines (immunity is ♥) but I always suffer (what is a little sore muscle for (sometime) lifetime immunity). My biggest problem is that I sleep on the side and now they both hurt.

In the world outside my pain bubble the worldUSA suffered too as internet went all wonky today. I noticed it first when Dropbox was acting funny on me this morning (just as I needed it). It seems like North America experienced some kind of internet meltdown with several big servers going down and packets getting lost with higher then normal rate. Some even started to call it webopocalypse probably because Tumblr went down and they suddenly had to express themselves with words. Mostly it was mildly annoying (vaccination muscle soreness hurts worse). It got better later but I still had problem accessing hulu few moments ago. However, it's good to know that even with all those servers down the internet was slowed down by an abysmal amount.

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[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

Noo not the tumblr D:

I feel no desire whatsoever to go on tumblr or pinterest, even though I wish I enjoyed them, just so I could feel on top of the (Previous?) Next Things. But I just don't much care about pictures! I love me a good Colbert gif as much as the next person, but my general lack of desire for more than 40 LJ icons was perhaps a good indicator of how pictorial my brain is (in that not much). I rss a few tumblrs, but with waning interest over time unless they are mostly textual. Or feminist. Or both.

How do you manage not to eat for 12 hours? D: My stomach would kill me if I ever tried to do that ;)

Yay for vaccines! Reading a novel with a large epidemic subplot in it right now (Ravensong) and almost feel inclined to get some myself (I haven't had the flu since that terrible, particularly harsh outbreak in 2008 or 2009 and don't particularly want to repeat the experience).

[ellestra.livejournal.com]

I find tumblr interface horrible and useless (but sometimes dive in it looking for pictures) and never even been to pinterest. I'm not really fan of social networking thing - so many things got big and disappeared before I even cared to look - from tyspace to chatroulette (not a big lose that). I got twitter account I don't use. I have this for my thoughts, deviantart pages for my art and facebook and google+ for posting photos from my travels for my family and friends.

But I enjoy watching the ripples when something big fails and fandom looses it's collective shit because how can you not have access for 5 minutes (or even a day). I'm old. I remember the world before the internet. I don't like being disconnected but it's not apocalypse when the server has a bad day.

It's simple you just put post-its on every surface that say "don't eat after 20:00" and eat a big supper just before that. And go to sleep as soon as possible and get up an hour earlier then normally so you have an hour before getting hungry. Then you actually want the blood drawn as soon as possible so you can have that sandwich you have in your backpack. It tastes so good then. Delayed gratification. Even preschoolers can do that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment) ;P

Vaccines are the best thing ever invented. Minimal possibility of side effects (nothing has less except for homeopathywater) and long lasting protection (never getting sick is even better then being cured). If I could I would get vaccinated for everything there is. Hurting arms be damned.