So...Its Been Quite A While
Theres a lot more I could delve into, I've just decided to highlight where my mind has taken me these past few months :)
As most of you probably don't know, I am enamored of the army. I couldn't really explain this affection, and still, to this day, cannot. I'm assuming that it has some tie to my mother, but I digress. As the months have passed, and I have watched Marc struggle with ROTC-land here at school, my mind has wandered. The location of its travels: Army. A few months back, a SSgt. in the Army visited a Career Fair at my school. I, quite awkwardly, walked up to the SSgt. and asked a few questions. Mostly, my questions, I had already answered myself through Google and the oh-so-many search engienes. However, I wanted more in-depth, and all knowing, answers. After getting said answers, I traveled around the Murphy Center a little more with a friend, Caitlin, as she searched for employment oppertunites. I collected little trinkets of the travels and, soon after, we left.
Here is the main point of this meeting...I am fully set on joining the Army. If not the Army, the National Guard. Why you ask? I cannot give you an answer. All I know is I want to do this. I want to go through BCT. I want to join my brother in the MP section of base life. I want to spend the, sometimes upwards of 10 months learning my MOS. It intrigues me to no end, and I cannot, for the life of me, explain why. If you're reading this and have any objections, or the converse of said objections, feel free to say them. Most of the people I have talked to about this have flat out said "I don't think you should" or the ever popular "There's no way you would make it through 9 weeks of Basic". You can just motivate my phatass :P
Another big thing for me lately is deciding my major. I've finally settled down in, what I believe I want to do for the rest of my God-given days. At least Buddha... [thats totally a joke]. After the Photography God's crushed my idea of a minor [which fell under their assigned category of minors...] I said so long to a degree in EMC with a concentration in Photography. I am now...a Criminal Justice Administration major with a concentration in Law Enforcement, with a Psychology minor. This seems to be a complete 180 from Photography, and many people have attempted to connect the two in some fashion I never deemed possible. I've heard CSI Photographer, or Mugshot expert. Seriously. All I want to do is pull people over, give them a dead tree with ink on it, and ride away with a smile knowing some punk ass teen has learned not to go 60 in a school zone. I am not so morbid as people think. Granted, i find the disgusting intriguing, but I would not go so far as to say
"Hey his guts are coming out! I studied this in college, I'm perfect for this job!" No.