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Actually made it to the clinic today: apparently I'm still running a slight fever, but just to be safe, I'm having a blood test anyway. I watched them draw the blood, mostly because one of the staff at the international office came with me, and I felt obligated to for the sake of showing a good face. The place where they pricked still hurts. >>;;

(The doctor said that it could be either a slight fever, or Rheumatism. I kind of went O_______0 at him. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia and it says that Rheumatism isn't really a disease, but rather a catch all phrase. Eeek.)

There's going to be a blood drive, but I don't think either uf us will donate. It's supposed to be good for you, but 400 mL? That's almost a pet bottle.


In happier news, unless I'm completely misreading things, the flower on the 10th division badge is my birthflower! I collect kikyo stationary, and never use it because frankly, it's made to be written on in Japanese and it doesn't quite work as well for English. ^_______^

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[yachinami.livejournal.com]

Birthflower? Never heard of it before. Does it work for months, or go by years, or is related to the Western zodiac?

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

It's by months.

Actually, the only reason that I know about it is that I like to buy omamori. At one shrine, they had a set of omamori corresponding to the months, which had flowers on them. The only thing that I really remembered was that mine is the bellflower.

The only place I've really seen them was on random omamori, and half the time, they don't label the names of the flowers (because I think it's supposed to be understood, even if I can only recognize the drawings of sakura, kiku, asagao, and kikyou) so I never really remember which flower goes with which month. I'm not really sure how important it's supposed to be, but I like it because I like stuff like that, I guess.

This site has a list of Japanese "romantic flowers" for each month, but I don't think it's the same list as the one I'm thinking of. I'm fairly sure that I can tell the difference between a chrisanthemum and a bellflower.>>)

[daviot.livejournal.com]

Actually, I can't give blood. I lived in England for a few years, and thus, under horrendous fears of Mad Cows and their prions, it's illegal for me to give blood. Ever. So, the world doesn't want my A+. But, they still nab it for tests. And dude, getting blood drawn isn't fun. >_<;

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

When I was very young, my mother once told me that I shouldn't give blood, for some reason or other. I asked her if she remembered why a few years ago, and she had no recollection of any prohibition whatsoever.

Actually, after the one time when a drop of blood dripped off the needle and onto the hospital bed/couch thing, it didn't really phase me anymore. ^^;;