Challenges, met in no order and sometimes through implication:

4/16: If you could live anywhere, where would you and why?
4/23: What's better: democracy or monarchy?
4/30: What would your life be, if it were a movie? Comedy, horror, drama sci-fi? And who would play you?
5/7: What is good and what is evil?
5/14: Who is your personal role model?
5/ ( Read more... )

( What's the most important decision you've made? )

H.R.3920

Title: To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court.

What the shit? Why'd I join the goddamned Navy to protect this country if the country's going to turn around and gut itself from the inside?

Christ. Still can't call the base. Wonder if I can get through to my congressman.

If I were left on a desert island? Hell, I've been left on a desert island. It's not so bad when you know they're coming back for you. Or at least, you're pretty sure.

What would I take... well, I'd take Max, first, even though he's not a thing. And my Leatherman Super Tool. I'd be tempted to take a gun, but then there's the question of what do ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to answer this one, because I don't think of myself as much of a daydreamer. I'm not, really. But sometimes when I'm alone and not doing much, and my mind will start to wander. It won't come as any surprise that usually it wanders to Max. Christ, my Instructor Chief Pyro. Mine. Used to be sometimes I'd daydream about getting him ( Read more... )

What sense would be the worst for me to lose? Touch. Don't even have to think about it. Not that I'd find it easy to live without any of the others, but since you can live without any given sense, I've gotta pick the one that means the most to me ( Read more... )

I know of a man whose son, after he died, had the words, "Peasant, Poet, Teacher" engraved on the back of his stone. I think that's probably the best thing I've ever heard. But I'm neither peasant nor poet, and I think most of my students wouldn't give too much thought to what was on my headstone. Maybe "Yes, Command Master Chief," if they ( Read more... )

Now, I know this isn't the answer people are usually looking for when they ask questions like "if you could have dinner with one person from history, who would it be?" but that's all right. ( I'd have dinner with my dad again. )

Jack listens to the message from David with a sort of pleased surprise. He'd felt such tension from David whenever they'd been around each other that he'd finally backed off, thinking maybe it was something he was doing, that maybe as long as Jack was around, irritating whatever sore spot it was he was irritating, that they'd never get past it ( Read more... )

[written on the back of this note and tucked into the pocket of Max's jacket ( Read more... )