In my panic pacing last night, I noticed something shiny on the ground. It was a sewing needle, buried in the carpet. The tip was blackened, as if it had been heavily sterilized via flame, and the point was bent, as if it had been jabbed into something too hard. On one hand, I'm just lucky I hadn't stepped on it. On the other, between this and ( Read more... )

Well, I'm here. I have officially moved out of my parent's house. Got my internet installed today, classes start monday. Assuming I stay in ( Read more... )

Moved *static*...new apartment...0000---------stealing wireless from *static* main office...
Online again*static*cable guy geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *END TRANSMISSION*

I spent the week curled in a little ball of oblivion. Seriously, wednesday through friday is sort of a blur. Between stressing, finding out one of my classes was cancelled and trying to finish landscaping a walkway, I did a lot of second guessing and hiding in my room. So I went to hang out with my best friend on friday, for the last time in a ( Read more... )

I took almost a year off of life. I'd expected that I'd be able to enroll in college and relax after the coast guard. To that end, I was successful ( Read more... )

Well I got my apartment. Moved a bunch of my large and inexpensive stuff into it, signed the papers, and came back. I do hope I'm not getting shafted. I don't have any real reason to believe that I am, but I still hope not. This complex seems to be rather busy though. When I moved in, I was greeted to fresh...wet...paint on the walls, and the ( Read more... )

Everything has finally been approved. I am enrolled in classes, the school has acknowledged that the government is paying, and I have an apartment I can move into in...two weeks. Everything since getting into the military has led up to this moment, and frankly I'm terrified that I missed something. I don't know what it could possibly be, but I'm ( Read more... )

http://www.xkcd.com/616/

This as I'm busy setting up an apartment and getting ready to go back to college. I just know I'm going to do something completely irresponsible.

Ding!

27!

What *does* sex have to do with the 'birds and the bees'?