Artemas “Bubba” Morales sings along with “Another One Bites the Dust” on the radio as he prepares a needle Tuesday afternoon in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

“I don’t think I really like you singing that song while you’re sticking me,” says Josie Klingaman, junior in political science, as Morales, an American Red Cross donor service technician, begins to draw her blood.

Klingaman is one of about 100 students who donated blood on the second day of the ISU fall blood drive, “Healing America’s Broken Heart.”

“It’s a good cause,” she says. “It’s something that’s easy to do to help other people.”

Klingaman and several of her friends arrived at the Great Hall at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday. About 45 minutes later, she had given 500 milliliters of blood and eaten several tasty cookies.

2 p.m. – Klingaman fills out all the forms necessary to donate, and her blood is tested.

“The finger pricking kind of hurts, but it’s really not that bad,” she said.

One of her friends couldn’t donate blood because of a low iron count and stays to watch Klingaman.

“That means you have to be nice to me all day now,” Klingaman says to her friend.

2:15 – Klingaman squeezes a small rubber ball in her right hand while Morales takes her blood pressure and presses on several veins in her arm.

Since this is not the first time she has donated blood, Klingaman came prepared; she ate sausage pizza for lunch to prevent herself from getting lightheaded.

2:20 p.m. – Morales, who has worked for the Red Cross for three months, rubs iodine on Klingaman’s arm.

“Don’t worry,” Morales says. “Remember those dots I put on your arm? In 30 seconds, we’ll take a stab at it and see what happens.”

2:22 p.m. – Morales carefully sticks Klingaman with the needle.

“Ouch,” she says with a grin.

2:30 p.m. – Klingaman finishes, and the needle is removed.

“How are you feeling?” Morales asks his patient.

“Pretty good,” says Klingaman, who is instructed to keep her arm above her head for several minutes.

2:35 p.m. – Klingaman sits at a large table with several other students who just donated blood. She sips water and munches on a sugar cookie while she chats with friends.

“My arm hurts a little bit,” Klingaman says, but that won’t stop her. She says she definitely plans to donate blood in the future.

“Sitting in a chair for a half-hour is a lot easier than people would think,” she says. “It didn’t take very long at all, and it helps a lot of people. . The cookies are pretty good, too.”