Anyone who has ever been in the military, or who has even more than a passing connection with the military is familiar with the term "hurry up and wait". I'm sitting in the USO at Norfolk, waiting for a plane that will not arrive for at least two and a half more hours. I'm here; now it's time to wait ( Read more... )

Thank you for your support and well-wishings, my friends. I promise to update if and when I can. Admittedly, there is that small part of me that is looking forward to being forced to live with so few distractions and so little free time as to forcefully inspire great drive in me to get done all the things that I have found reasons to put off ( Read more... )

Hi again. Man, but I do seem to spend a lot of my time here feeling sorry for myself. I hear so many jokes about whiny emo kids bleeding livejournal posts; have I become one of those? Do I really do nothing here but complain about my life ( Read more... )

First, I almost get run off the road at 5:30 in the morning by some idiot who cannot wait until freaking sunrise to get on his cell. Then I deal with a classroom full of unearned attitude for most of the day. Add to this my being tasked to help a bunch of lazy bastards load cargo onto a plane because they don't want to do the work themselves, and ( Read more... )

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