It looks like I'm not going to be an instructor.  It wasn't that I was denied.  It was the command's request to the Overmind in DC for an ELT staff pick-up that was denied.  Apparently I'm needed out at sea, which is where I'm not going either way.  I just want to do my fucking job and they won't let me.  However, I will be on a normal schedule ( Read more... )

I finished with my training as an ELT.  It's been decided that I'm going to be an instructor.  So I get to teach production students basic radcon and chemistry, and I get to teach and train future ELT's.  Sounds like a blast, especially at this command.  So I guess I'm stuck in Charleston, SC for another two years unless I get picked for officer, ( Read more... )

If I were a loans officer...

"I'm calling from capital about your student loans.  I just wanted to thank you for paying them.  I'm sure it's not always easy, but you are doing great.  You should be proud of the life you've made for yourself."

Was anybody gonna go to Lallapalooza this year?  It might be a possibility for me but I've nobody to go with.

I was going to try to make a long and eventful post about the long and eventful day I had last Friday.  It was going to include pictures and possibly even videos that I took during that day.  Then I realized it would take a lot of time and energy, so I didn't ( Read more... )

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Considering it's such a localized shot, I was fairly amused at the number of people who just kept coming out of the wood works.  Reminds me of breaking a glass graduated cylinder on the boat.  If this happens to you, you have to buy every ELT who hears it a soda.  Just the hollow ting of it hitting a hard surface would have every SMAG on board ( Read more... )

This video is happiness.

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There might be something else I should say but I don't know what it is, or remember.

I was gonna make a meaningful post but I'm all sorts of messed up.  My left eye is scratched up from falling asleep with a ripped contact on and I think I have swine flu.  I tried running to see if I could sweat it out or whatever, but it didn't work.  I'm too miserable to spill out any philosophical bile today.  Be grateful.  I wish I could take ( Read more... )

"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down, "happy."  They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life ( Read more... )

I think that when I'm old I'm gonna feel like I haven't done enough.  Like I still have an unpaid debt to society.  It won't matter how successful I might become either ( Read more... )