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Well, work is pretty good. I should get all the overtime I need to get all my days off. I have 25 hrs already and I only need like 5 or 6 days off but they are scattered through out the semester. And I'll work several hours "extra" on the weeks I need off to keep things moving according to plan. Oh, my reasons for needing off -- esc conference (2 days), really really need to visit Joe and go to Disney World(2 days) and must go see Tucker (2 days), hopefully he'll have his stupid orders and be at his permanent duty station before mid-May.
And that leads into why I am down today...For you see, they took him out of classes 2 weeks ago b/c they hadn't processed his paper work....and he's still not going to start tomorrow...he has flight brothers who are graduating from this tech school and he hasn't started. This is 3 more weeks before he gets a station (at least). What if this happens at every tech school? What if his 4 day water training turns into 3 weeks? Or his 17 days survival in Washington turns into like 6 weeks? And then he gets to loadmaster school and it's 3 weeks before he starts and then 3 more before he'll be assigned a station so that's like what? 19 weeks? 4+ more months? June or July before he knows? Aug/Sept wedding? School starts the end of Aug. That's not time to transfer :( Hell, that's barely time to decide to get married. So....Jackie must continue to plan for multiple lives. He's given me the names of 5 bases where he could work. There's apparently only a limited number that tops out at 10. The McGuire AFB, NJ is only 50 min from Rutgers and he can live 30 min off base. That would be easy...so I'm going to apply there even though it's past all deadlines and whatnot. But then, there's no other ABET accredited schools w/in 1.25 hrs of another base. NC state and SC state are w/in 1.5 hrs of Pope and Charleston. Both of those are in the NSE thing. NC is harder to get into, but SC is open. There's also an option for mitigating circumstances that if he finds out soon enough, I may be able to switch to SC after the NSE confernce. So, that's the order I'm going to put on my exchange. If those are the ones that happen...we'll have to think a bit more about this weeding thing. An hour commute to school is NOT what I need. But I would be able to see him on the weekends regardless :) Probably, I'll get an open dorm or rent an apt on campus and he will live on base. I'd still be on all my scholarships. And, depending on how things are going, I'd still have the option to return to UK or just transfer. I believe I'd meet all the graduation requirements either way. Last night I was in tears realizing that all my plans might come to nothing, but hey, even tho I am planning for 3 different lives, they do kinda over lap. I'm actually feeling better since writing this entry. 3 out of 5 possibilities isn't bad. We can get lucky, right? And he can exchange orders w/ someone else, so we'll have at least 2 of 5 open options and if anyone gets them, he could possibly/probably work an exchange, right? So, full steam ahead on all planning! Gosh, this makes me tired. I guess my big problem last night was relizing our gov't sucks and things could take a good deal longer to find out than I would like. And he's frustrated just sitting there w/out internet, w/o classes and w/ doing stupid useless details all day (cleaning everything). So, last night I was down, but things just may work out after all. Spirits are on the rise at least until the next bad news. Somehow I always seem to be standing at the spot in my cloud where the hole gets poked in it and it takes a little while to climb/fly back up and land in a different spot. Emotional roller coasters - yippee.
And that leads into why I am down today...For you see, they took him out of classes 2 weeks ago b/c they hadn't processed his paper work....and he's still not going to start tomorrow...he has flight brothers who are graduating from this tech school and he hasn't started. This is 3 more weeks before he gets a station (at least). What if this happens at every tech school? What if his 4 day water training turns into 3 weeks? Or his 17 days survival in Washington turns into like 6 weeks? And then he gets to loadmaster school and it's 3 weeks before he starts and then 3 more before he'll be assigned a station so that's like what? 19 weeks? 4+ more months? June or July before he knows? Aug/Sept wedding? School starts the end of Aug. That's not time to transfer :( Hell, that's barely time to decide to get married. So....Jackie must continue to plan for multiple lives. He's given me the names of 5 bases where he could work. There's apparently only a limited number that tops out at 10. The McGuire AFB, NJ is only 50 min from Rutgers and he can live 30 min off base. That would be easy...so I'm going to apply there even though it's past all deadlines and whatnot. But then, there's no other ABET accredited schools w/in 1.25 hrs of another base. NC state and SC state are w/in 1.5 hrs of Pope and Charleston. Both of those are in the NSE thing. NC is harder to get into, but SC is open. There's also an option for mitigating circumstances that if he finds out soon enough, I may be able to switch to SC after the NSE confernce. So, that's the order I'm going to put on my exchange. If those are the ones that happen...we'll have to think a bit more about this weeding thing. An hour commute to school is NOT what I need. But I would be able to see him on the weekends regardless :) Probably, I'll get an open dorm or rent an apt on campus and he will live on base. I'd still be on all my scholarships. And, depending on how things are going, I'd still have the option to return to UK or just transfer. I believe I'd meet all the graduation requirements either way. Last night I was in tears realizing that all my plans might come to nothing, but hey, even tho I am planning for 3 different lives, they do kinda over lap. I'm actually feeling better since writing this entry. 3 out of 5 possibilities isn't bad. We can get lucky, right? And he can exchange orders w/ someone else, so we'll have at least 2 of 5 open options and if anyone gets them, he could possibly/probably work an exchange, right? So, full steam ahead on all planning! Gosh, this makes me tired. I guess my big problem last night was relizing our gov't sucks and things could take a good deal longer to find out than I would like. And he's frustrated just sitting there w/out internet, w/o classes and w/ doing stupid useless details all day (cleaning everything). So, last night I was down, but things just may work out after all. Spirits are on the rise at least until the next bad news. Somehow I always seem to be standing at the spot in my cloud where the hole gets poked in it and it takes a little while to climb/fly back up and land in a different spot. Emotional roller coasters - yippee.