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Eight days left before school starts. Not ready to go back. Kind of cool though...some other students and I were asked to go to the new nursing building to take pictures and videos of us doing "nursing stuff" for the newspapers and news stations. That's pretty exciting to be a part of.
318 days of running. I had a great run yesterday with the Lufkin runners. We ran on a bike trail near campus. It's so much fun to run with a group and not really be concerned about time or distance...to just be doing it for the camaraderie and to be with other people who love it so much. Running through the woods and hearing the breath and ground pounding of the group. I really like the shared, tribal aspect of it. Hopefully my running group will be as successful as this Lufkin group is.
Just got the Kings of Leon album Only By the Night. I really like it. The lead singer has an awesome voice. My favorite song from the album is Manhattan.
Me, cmmunchkin, my brother, his girlfriend, and my parents went camping this weekend. It was REALLY cold. So cold in fact, that we only stayed out there one night. It was way to cold to stay out there for two nights. It was really too cold to stay out there for just the one night, but we did it anyway. Got down to 15 degrees. Pretty freakin' cold for tent camping.
Been thinking about Iraq a lot lately since it's been the holidays. I know that my job right now is to go to nursing school so that I can do that for the Navy when I'm done, but sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm contributing anything to "the fight". I've only been on one deployment. Even though it was for 12 months, it was only one time. And it's been 4 whole years since I got back. I think about how lucky I am to get to spend Christmas with my family but how there are people out there who don't. I'm not ungrateful for this opportunity that I have. It's just not fair that I get to be here when other people do back to back deployments. I'm sitting here worrying about things like, "whether or not my financial aid go through this semester" or "when the hell is my Amazon package going to get here?" I'm not having to worry about getting shot at or whether or not all the people that I went there with are going to make it home. It's just tough to swallow sometimes.
Anyway...I hope everyone is doing well and starting off their New Year in a good way.
318 days of running. I had a great run yesterday with the Lufkin runners. We ran on a bike trail near campus. It's so much fun to run with a group and not really be concerned about time or distance...to just be doing it for the camaraderie and to be with other people who love it so much. Running through the woods and hearing the breath and ground pounding of the group. I really like the shared, tribal aspect of it. Hopefully my running group will be as successful as this Lufkin group is.
Just got the Kings of Leon album Only By the Night. I really like it. The lead singer has an awesome voice. My favorite song from the album is Manhattan.
Me, cmmunchkin, my brother, his girlfriend, and my parents went camping this weekend. It was REALLY cold. So cold in fact, that we only stayed out there one night. It was way to cold to stay out there for two nights. It was really too cold to stay out there for just the one night, but we did it anyway. Got down to 15 degrees. Pretty freakin' cold for tent camping.
Been thinking about Iraq a lot lately since it's been the holidays. I know that my job right now is to go to nursing school so that I can do that for the Navy when I'm done, but sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm contributing anything to "the fight". I've only been on one deployment. Even though it was for 12 months, it was only one time. And it's been 4 whole years since I got back. I think about how lucky I am to get to spend Christmas with my family but how there are people out there who don't. I'm not ungrateful for this opportunity that I have. It's just not fair that I get to be here when other people do back to back deployments. I'm sitting here worrying about things like, "whether or not my financial aid go through this semester" or "when the hell is my Amazon package going to get here?" I'm not having to worry about getting shot at or whether or not all the people that I went there with are going to make it home. It's just tough to swallow sometimes.
Anyway...I hope everyone is doing well and starting off their New Year in a good way.