By no fault of his own, Corey has me all torn up inside.  He came home yesterday with the news that he might be sent to Afghanistan in May and be gone for a year.  Combine that time with my deployment and we wouldn't see each other for over a year.  The timing is pretty rough too, which is why Corey wasn't all that excited to tell me about it in ( Read more... )

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My nerves are getting more and more fragile as tomorrow approaches ( Read more... )

So, my mock STA-21 officer interview was on Friday. I found out there are only three of us from my command applying this year, and rumor has it that one of the other two is likely to drop out. That bodes well for me, being that we're ranked by our CO, but I can't imagine giving up at this point--we're so closeThe interview was done by a board of ( Read more... )

I worked a full day today, which was my first official day back in the shop, and I have to go back into work at 0330 tonight/this morning. My command is doing some tactical ship stuff and we need to have troubleshooters around at all times this weekend, just in case. I need to force myself to fall asleep in the next hour or two so that I'm rested ( Read more... )