So far I think hangovers aren´t as bad as I remembered them ( Read more... )

I remember having a hard time focusing, what seemed like hours of tasks and seconds to do them. Beneath me was the road, black topped, six foot embankments dropping on either side, a canal to the north reeded and muddy, and farmland stretching everywhere else. It was the Mulla Fayad expressway screaming "welcome to the cootch of civilization" its ( Read more... )

because sometimes they come off, never to be put on again.

What makes something like rejection sooo shitty is that the rejector and the rejectee can't possibly see the rejection in the same light. It looses meaning in the translation between two brains, or alters somehow in the space between lips and ear.

( Flashback Ahead )

120 degees is too fucking hot to have no AC. . . and its not as high as its gonna get yet.

I talked for a while with an Iraqi teenager two nights ago. What struck me about the boy was that while we talked he stopped mid sentence and asked to touch my face. Sure, says I. He places his hand on my cheek feeling stubble and bug bites and in a sort of surpised and contemplative voice says "So you are human too ( Read more... )

Peasant - "No one will forget what they have seen this day."
KCC - "There is nothing honorable in taking a life."
Peasant - "What will you do now?"
KCC - "Work. Wander. Rest when I can."

Kung Fu kicks ASS!

I'm experimenting with the layout. Excuse the mess.

DT Suzuki (a somewhat renowned Zen teacher) said something to the effect of enlightenment can't just sit on the mountaintop it must venture into the pit of the world ( Read more... )

Things to do:

Sleep (check!)
play guitar(check!)
sleep(Check!)
clean weapons(CZECH!)
sleep(and Check)
finish watching Kung Fu (pilot episode)(before bed!)
sleep(after bed)
read more emerson (soon enough)
sleep(can't do this anymore)
avoid going to mass graves we found today (REALLY hope i get a check here)

that is all

REV

Yesterday was my day off/maintenace day.

But good ole alpha section gets roped into a convoy escort mission that keeps me up the entire night before waitin for an SP. We were projected to move out at 1230am pushed back to 0330am, finally moving at 0430am to Lucifiyah/Potato Factory. Thanks to a grand convoy brief by the lietenant to our escortees ( Read more... )