Your bi-quarterly life update.
I'll keep this as short as I can. No one takes the time to read huge blocks of blog text.
After another year in Bellingham, I've accomplished a few of the goals I set for myself last December when I posted my list of resolutions.
- take self less seriously (check!)
- begin an actual career (see the rest of this entry)
- spend less money (haven't had to ask Mom for any money since I graduated)
- eat less shit (oh, please, I love food way too much.)
- be a better friend to the people I care about (umm... kinda, I guess.)
- read more books (too much guitar and video games...)
- start lifting weights again (after discovering kettlebells my overall fitness level is much higher)
- swim more (swimming is too expensive)
- get less horrible at guitar (having nothing to do for 8 hours at work helps...)
However, my most immediate and pressing goal is getting the hell away from this night job and starting a career that will give me both job satisfaction and afford me enough cash to get out of debt for good.
Admittedly, I've been incredibly lazy about job searching, but moving back to Kitsap to jobhunt exclusively and live off my parents for ten months is a huge step backward. As much as I love being with my family, sponging off them while I bitch and moan and try to figure myself out is not an option.
Long story short - the Navy's in my blood, and has been an option in the back of my mind since I graduated high school. Five years later, I have a degree, a decent GPA for Supply, Public Affairs and Surface Warfare Officer, and the overwhelming motivation to get out of here and get on with my life.
The only things holding me back are my ineptitude at math and physics, and about 30 extra pounds.
The Plan
- Spend one more year in Bellingham at a new job where I make a little more money and work 40 regular people hours.
- Run until I puke every day.
- Kettlebells three times a week.
- Refresh self in math and learn physics.
- Solicit letters of recommendation from professors and employers.
- Memorize things a person learns during Indoc Week.
- Submit OCS application package.
- Pull self out of postgraduate rut.
Plans are subject to change but the idea remains the same.
A year on my ass at a desk is long enough. This shit is over.
I'd talk about how I'd have to put on hold (not LEAVE, god no, that'd be stupid...) the absolute best thing that's ever happened to me, but I figure you guys have read enough about girls over the years to where I really don't need to.
After another year in Bellingham, I've accomplished a few of the goals I set for myself last December when I posted my list of resolutions.
- take self less seriously (check!)
- begin an actual career (see the rest of this entry)
- spend less money (haven't had to ask Mom for any money since I graduated)
- eat less shit (oh, please, I love food way too much.)
- be a better friend to the people I care about (umm... kinda, I guess.)
- read more books (too much guitar and video games...)
- start lifting weights again (after discovering kettlebells my overall fitness level is much higher)
- swim more (swimming is too expensive)
- get less horrible at guitar (having nothing to do for 8 hours at work helps...)
However, my most immediate and pressing goal is getting the hell away from this night job and starting a career that will give me both job satisfaction and afford me enough cash to get out of debt for good.
Admittedly, I've been incredibly lazy about job searching, but moving back to Kitsap to jobhunt exclusively and live off my parents for ten months is a huge step backward. As much as I love being with my family, sponging off them while I bitch and moan and try to figure myself out is not an option.
Long story short - the Navy's in my blood, and has been an option in the back of my mind since I graduated high school. Five years later, I have a degree, a decent GPA for Supply, Public Affairs and Surface Warfare Officer, and the overwhelming motivation to get out of here and get on with my life.
The only things holding me back are my ineptitude at math and physics, and about 30 extra pounds.
The Plan
- Spend one more year in Bellingham at a new job where I make a little more money and work 40 regular people hours.
- Run until I puke every day.
- Kettlebells three times a week.
- Refresh self in math and learn physics.
- Solicit letters of recommendation from professors and employers.
- Memorize things a person learns during Indoc Week.
- Submit OCS application package.
- Pull self out of postgraduate rut.
Plans are subject to change but the idea remains the same.
A year on my ass at a desk is long enough. This shit is over.
I'd talk about how I'd have to put on hold (not LEAVE, god no, that'd be stupid...) the absolute best thing that's ever happened to me, but I figure you guys have read enough about girls over the years to where I really don't need to.