Blood Donors
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For blood, since I have one arm free I just do whatever on my phone. Sometimes interacting with the Threadiverse, sometimes reading articles, sometimes texting people...
If I am doing platelets, both my arms are hooked up and I can't move them, so I'm stuck with watching stuff on the TV screen. It's really cool they have those at all, though—better than staring at the wall! I usually pop on some documentary, which is... very much ignoring my list of movies and TV shows I might like to see some day. Oops.