erastes

Argh! no! Leave me SOME memories to cherish, will you?

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/08/05/an-old-favorite-gets-a-makeover-and-returns-to-pbs/

Don’t think I’m at all happy about that. And Keeley Hawes again!? Don’t we have any other actresses? It’ll be just a souped-up sexy romping thing, I’ll bet.

Quick update healthwise: Had amazing time at hospital – no, really. Decided to go really early – they open at 8 – so got there at 815 and I was still number 11. Got called in in mere minutes, and told the nurse, was ignored…but then she got in the arm in ONE GO. I was sitting there gobsmacked. She asked if I was ok, because it was coming out slow. (I knew this too, but there’s no point telling them this, either. My blood is the blood equivalent of light on the Discworld. If they DID hit an artery, my blood would crawl out so slowly, I’d take about 3 weeks to bleed out. Lazy blood. Its a real condition. Look it up.) Anyway, she took all she needed and had me de-tourniqueted before you could say… well, before you could read Chapter One of Standish anyway. I was grinning like a fool, and thanking her so often she probably thought I was mad. Shut up, at the back. “It’s my job,” she said, with not a little pride. “But yes!” I wanted to shout. “It’s the phlebotomist’s job at my surgery too, and every single nurse I’ve encountered in my LIFE, and I’ve never had an experience like that.”

But I didn’t. I just wobbled off, grinning.