So after three days of ground school, I jump tomorrow.

For real. Out of an airplane. A perfectly good one. Sweet. It's very exciting.

I hope I don't fuck up.

GE is over. Thank goodness. It was fun while it lasted, but goodness you just want to come back from that! Real showers are not overrated. Mmm... CS gas ( Read more... )

So the basics get here on Thursday. Sadly, I will be on deployment in Jack's valley for GE so I miss all the fun. Damn. I wanted to be here ( Read more... )

My, it has been a long time. I don't think anyone really reads these anymore (except maybe chibi-chan and her comment on my last post) but that's okay ( Read more... )

Yesterday was commencement for the Class of 2007 (GUUUSS!) and it was awesome. THe entire ceremony was the coolest thing, and Secretary Gates was a very good speaker (and former Air Force officer)... and when Gen. D. said those timeless words, "Class of 2007- You are dismissed!" everyone erupted in cheers and clapping and it was so cool. They threw ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm a Stargate fan and there's this pub in C-springs that SG-1 used to go to when they had downtime called O'Malley's. This is in the show. The people that wrote this also said there wasn't a zoo in C-springs (there is, it's the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, which I think is funny they missed).

So I was surfing Facebook today and there's this guy ( Read more... )

So I find it awesome that I got an eighty on the physics workout section of my final (without really studying) and a fifty two on the multiple choice for the physics final (without really studying) which leaves me at a C and gives me a glorious 3.12, enough to keep my pretty star a bit longer ( Read more... )

So I feel horrible. There's a reason why I never *ever* take the CQ shifts in the morning... I stayed up last night watching movies all night and got back to my room at about 4:45 and made it til 6:30 but I had to take a nap... set my alarm for 8:10 (that's a half decent hour and a half sleep cycle) and went for it. I also figured I would hear ( Read more... )

And so ends the first academic year of my cadet career ( Read more... )

I have decided that Jess Mariano, a character from Gilmore Girls, is perfect ( Read more... )