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Ha. Seems I'll be using this thing a bit more this year. Or maybe it's just because classes haven't started back up yet. But first things first...
...there, now that iTunes is up and running (finally), I can get to writing.
Classes start Monday, so I'll be getting busier starting tomorrow evening (score for homework due the first day of class...not).
Not a whole lot has changed between now and the last entry. I finally got all the briefings out of the way, so tomorrow's actually a free day. Sort of. At least I've got martial arts training to look forward to, both on the weekends and during my once-a-week PE class. A nice change of pace from swimming, even though I didn't so much mind the 40-minute (aka the "40-year) swim test last fall; only 1000 meters required to pass, and I ended up with 1500 and change, so go me. But the real fun is in martial arts; it's something I've missed since I left ODU and Sensei Hamada's aikido classes. I've still got his book sitting here on my bookshelf at school -- I really should get back into reading it soon. Good advice for discipline of the mind and body, which are always handy, especially at this place. I tried to get into judo here, or jiu-jutsu (we do have clubs for them here), but I couldn't sandwich it in there. Many props to Mike for getting the Bujinkan thing going; now that my knee isn't all bent out of shape, I can get back into it.
Seems a little funny I guess: traditionally, Cancers (like me) are supposed to be the laid-back, more conciliatory people; very home- and family-oriented, nurturing, etc. Non-confrontational and all that. And the truth is, I'll do that with a big smile on my face. I'd much rather stick around with friends and family, but I also have a ridiculous amount of fun in wrestling matches or other contact sports like that. Maybe I'm just one of those aggressive crabs, like the ones that used to chase me down the beach at Breezy Point when I was a kid (at least when given the opportunity). Or maybe this place just naturally brings out aggression in people...it would seem to make sense for a place like this to do that. Military-oriented and all that.
And maybe I'm just riding a lack-of-sleep high. Ever had one of those, where you're so drained you come up with all sorts of weird stuff? I must be having one of those if I'm waxing Zodiactic...and making up words.
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Okay, I guess now that the requisite weird stuff is out of the way, I can put up my hopeful plans for the summer. No idea if these will even be close, since ProProgs loves to play head games with us. Hopefully I'll have first block off, since I'm supposed to be going to a wedding, then an aviation cruise second block (I'm gonna try for Norfolk, since there's a fairly decent-sized helo contingent down there, but I could end up anywhere), and if I'm really lucky, I'll be back in the Annapolis area for IFS, which is sort of an introduction to flight that's required for everyone before they head for Pensacola...(just in case anyone was unaware of my career aspirations, I want to fly helicopters). That's usually run out of an airport close by, so we'll see.
Of course, they could completely ignore my preferences and stick me in a sub somewhere, but we'll see what happens. LT Cox already knows what it is I want to do, now I have to chat up the other aviators around here, especially LT J., since she's a helo pilot, and her office is right upstairs.
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Plans for the semester: hopefully things will be a little more...relaxed, but that's anybody's guess. I know I'm gonna try to take a trip out to H-burg in a couple of weeks (and hopefully it won't be the last), and then spring break is just over two months away. After that, everyone just starts the slow slide into May. Speaking of May, that means Ring Dance. That ought to be a good time. But that takes planning. Gotta try and find a date before it's too late. No idea of when exactly it is, just that it's probably sometime between May 15-20 (probably that weekend, but this early, I have no idea).
Anyway, as my last entry may have suggested, I'll be being a bit more...proactive this semester...more apt to seek out goals than waiting to see if they drift within easy reach. They say half the fun is getting there, now it's time to see if "they" are right. Besides, if it was easy, it wouldn't be so valuable.
And now...sleep!
...there, now that iTunes is up and running (finally), I can get to writing.
Classes start Monday, so I'll be getting busier starting tomorrow evening (score for homework due the first day of class...not).
Not a whole lot has changed between now and the last entry. I finally got all the briefings out of the way, so tomorrow's actually a free day. Sort of. At least I've got martial arts training to look forward to, both on the weekends and during my once-a-week PE class. A nice change of pace from swimming, even though I didn't so much mind the 40-minute (aka the "40-year) swim test last fall; only 1000 meters required to pass, and I ended up with 1500 and change, so go me. But the real fun is in martial arts; it's something I've missed since I left ODU and Sensei Hamada's aikido classes. I've still got his book sitting here on my bookshelf at school -- I really should get back into reading it soon. Good advice for discipline of the mind and body, which are always handy, especially at this place. I tried to get into judo here, or jiu-jutsu (we do have clubs for them here), but I couldn't sandwich it in there. Many props to Mike for getting the Bujinkan thing going; now that my knee isn't all bent out of shape, I can get back into it.
Seems a little funny I guess: traditionally, Cancers (like me) are supposed to be the laid-back, more conciliatory people; very home- and family-oriented, nurturing, etc. Non-confrontational and all that. And the truth is, I'll do that with a big smile on my face. I'd much rather stick around with friends and family, but I also have a ridiculous amount of fun in wrestling matches or other contact sports like that. Maybe I'm just one of those aggressive crabs, like the ones that used to chase me down the beach at Breezy Point when I was a kid (at least when given the opportunity). Or maybe this place just naturally brings out aggression in people...it would seem to make sense for a place like this to do that. Military-oriented and all that.
And maybe I'm just riding a lack-of-sleep high. Ever had one of those, where you're so drained you come up with all sorts of weird stuff? I must be having one of those if I'm waxing Zodiactic...and making up words.
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Okay, I guess now that the requisite weird stuff is out of the way, I can put up my hopeful plans for the summer. No idea if these will even be close, since ProProgs loves to play head games with us. Hopefully I'll have first block off, since I'm supposed to be going to a wedding, then an aviation cruise second block (I'm gonna try for Norfolk, since there's a fairly decent-sized helo contingent down there, but I could end up anywhere), and if I'm really lucky, I'll be back in the Annapolis area for IFS, which is sort of an introduction to flight that's required for everyone before they head for Pensacola...(just in case anyone was unaware of my career aspirations, I want to fly helicopters). That's usually run out of an airport close by, so we'll see.
Of course, they could completely ignore my preferences and stick me in a sub somewhere, but we'll see what happens. LT Cox already knows what it is I want to do, now I have to chat up the other aviators around here, especially LT J., since she's a helo pilot, and her office is right upstairs.
*********
Plans for the semester: hopefully things will be a little more...relaxed, but that's anybody's guess. I know I'm gonna try to take a trip out to H-burg in a couple of weeks (and hopefully it won't be the last), and then spring break is just over two months away. After that, everyone just starts the slow slide into May. Speaking of May, that means Ring Dance. That ought to be a good time. But that takes planning. Gotta try and find a date before it's too late. No idea of when exactly it is, just that it's probably sometime between May 15-20 (probably that weekend, but this early, I have no idea).
Anyway, as my last entry may have suggested, I'll be being a bit more...proactive this semester...more apt to seek out goals than waiting to see if they drift within easy reach. They say half the fun is getting there, now it's time to see if "they" are right. Besides, if it was easy, it wouldn't be so valuable.
And now...sleep!