I've been prolonging making this post, probably because I've not wanted to actually face the fact that I have to make it. Tomorrow is the day I leave for the Army, and while I've left home to go away for extended periods of time quite a bit over the last few years, this one somehow feels bigger. Perhaps it's because these past few months have ( Read more... )

Found out today that my first duty station after my training is tentatively with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Camp Vilseck, Germany. Zey send me because I am expert.

Good Karma is defined as receiving three orders of taquitos at Taco Bell when you only paid for one.

Earlier today I was looking at a US Army keychain that I got over the summer at Ft. Lewis. It has a sticker on it that says Made in China.

Only the army could make me think YES!! and FUCK!! in the same goddamn thought.

Right now I'm waiting to hear all of my army branching details. I'll find out what I'm doing, where I'm going, and when I'm leaving, all at the same time today. I'm going freaking insane right now. It's like Christmas, only my present is the next four years of my life. And also I have to wait for the present to come to me.

Here's a fun thing to do if you're bored and need to pass the time. Go to google and type, all in quotations, "(Your name) is" and see what kind of results you get about yourself. Go ahead and do this for yourself before you read what my top result was, since it is likely to absolutely obliterate whatever yours is.

Ready? Okay, here's mine:

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While scrolling through all of my facebook friends I came across the profile of a friend who died a few years ago in a car accident. I decided to click on his profile, and for his mini-feed thing it said "No recent activity." I laughed. Rather hard.

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Well I guess I'm now 0 for 2 with the execution of my brilliant date idea. Unfortunately the opportunity doesn't come around all that often, which is I guess what makes it seem so creative and special. At least this time I went by myself and, in spite of clouds and light pollution, still saw like 10 meteors in the span of about a half hour. And ( Read more... )