Tomorrow around 1300 I take off for Alaska... I've still got 5 more days in the holding cage until I reach Kodiak, and then they ship to California, and then it really begins ( Read more... )

If you looked from an outside perspective to last night, it was absolutely scandalous and I'm probably going to hell. But from the inside, it was not. It was comforting and connecting in ways that I don't understand right now, and maybe never will. People are amazingly complicated creatures, and whenever I think I have one sounded out, I'm amazed ( Read more... )

I've felt really depressed, desparate, lonely, needy, and out-of-control lately, and I think it has to do with the weather: We've had a Nor'easter stall over New London for a couple days, and the weather is terrible. It's 50* - which isn't too bad in itself - and it's rainy, and that cold dreariness that makes everyone's soul feel empty. ( Read more... )

There's a lot going on right now, and it's hard to keep track of it all. I've got so many crazy emotions going back and forth ( Read more... )

Continueing on my recent thoughts on the nostalgia and bittersweet feeling I always get each Spring. The weather is getting nice, it's back to camping, climbing, and hiking. I passed by the mirror and noticed I'm starting to get some color and that great racoon look. The sports bra tan has began, and my legs are scratched to bits ( Read more... )

Sandhurst came and went this year, and to be honest, I don't even know how we did. The Coast Guard Academy tends to be pretty terrible at playing Army, but we do try hard and everyone tends to walk away with a lot of pride being the only blue uniforms in 4,000 green ones. I always have a really good time talking to people and making new friends ( ( Read more... )

Continueing with my climate change rant ( Read more... )

My climate studies class has really been an eye-opening experience. It's great to sit with 13 really smart firsties and 2 really smart LT's and discuss the problems of our world. Obviously, we talk a lot about "global warming", climate change, and what it means for our earth. I get frustrated when I realize that alternative energies is there (some ( Read more... )

There's so many times when I've wanted to sit down and write lately, but I haven't, because I barely have time to breath. This part of the Spring is always hellish, but right now it's even worse because this stupid Nor'easter has sat on top of us and I think the constant rain/clouds/darkness is messing with people in weird. I feel like I haven't ( Read more... )

I haven't journeled lately. I'm not sure why. It's not because I have nothing to say, but because life is moving so darn fast that I know whatever I write down today will have nothing to do with what's going on tomorrow. We finally got contacted by the MUNRO, and I'm starting to wonder how on earth I'm going to find a place to live on a Coast Guard ( Read more... )