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Apr 10, 2006 17:00

Well, so it's been a while.
My week with Lissa was wonderful, and reminded me just how much I love and miss her. We had fun, stayed a night in a nice hotel just off Haight street, watched some movies... I met her 1st and 4th grade students, and actually helped the fourth graders in a workshop Lissa set up. It was fun, better than the stuff I did in fourth grade, and a lot of the kids (not ALL, but a lot) actually got what was going on, and seemed to be having fun. It seems to me some days that kids as a whole are not given enought credit, and could probably be doing better in the long run, if school gave them more advanced work. Some kids might not get it, but I always felt like I could be learning more, faster, harder things, if we were just being taught more. But then, I went to public school. I guess her students have probably been doing more that I ever did at that age.
I'm in Little Creek now, attached to the USS Ashland. I've been exploring the great (cough) state of Virginia. When I arrived, we were in dry dock, not at our home port, but within walking distance (for me... everyone here thought I was crazy when I said I walked there) of Downtown Norfolk - and the Norva, which on the first night I went out, just happened to be playing Rob Zombie, sold out. Holy shit. I did however, manage to see Badfish, the Sublime tribute band, at Lissa's suggestion. Good stuff. Today we're in Little Creek, finally, no longer in walking distance of the Norva (well, maybe, I'm thinking it might still be do-able), but closer to other forms of entertainment, and finally on a real Navy base, where the bloody Navy Exchange has at least five isles with nothing but liquor, in a fashion that puts most, if not all liquor stores to shame.
Anyway, I'm sitting at a rec. center nearby where my ship is... supposed to be. They hadn't arrived when I got here. Ironic, not to participate in the first ship's movement since I came onboard, but I had to stay behind and clean the barge we were staying on. Happily enough, the Engineering dept. is very much independant of EVERYONE else... so we left early while they had to sit around at the end of the day. ^.^ There are benefits, no doubt about it. We work harder that most of them anyway, in worse conditions than most as well. So as often as I wonder if I made the right choice in the navy, indeed, the right chioce in being an Engineman... I know being an engineer has it's good points.
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