Letter #6
28 October 2005 0830
Hi, love.
Just got your old mail the night of 27 Oct.
People in the corner across from me are having brainless theological debates. "It's not a ROMAN ROAD to salvation! It's GOD'S ROAD!" *sigh*
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I'd love to go to the 14 October wedding with you, presuming we can afford it. [My friends teensy80 and magnus50000 are getting married and I'd really like to go. Problem is, its four states away.]
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Hey, the guy with the list of people going home just came in and rattled off like 10 names. They all signed their LON LAST Friday. So the wait time = approx. 1 week from signing your LON (Letter of Notification). The ELS basically just says, "Okay, you're getting you seperation (sic). The LON means "Your stuff is just about done, you are leaving Real Soon Now".
Hopefully that means I'll be gone within 2 weeks. People leave every day of the week, so I won't run into the situation of, "Your case is done, but we don't do departures until Thursday..."
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My favorite dorm guard shift: permaguard! Dorm guard shifts are 2 hours long; from 2030 - 0430, there are always 2 on shift. The rule is, you cannot serve 2 consecutive shifts. So, permaguard = 0030 - 0230, 0430 - 0630, 0830 - 1030, and so on. Stories of permaguard for a WEEK.
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Sean Flynn