I'm a Second Lieutenant of Marines now. Ten weeks of Quantico and record heat, running around in the woods with an M16...here I am, home again for 10 days of leave. I can't believe it actually happened.

I have a job! :)

I leave for OCS tomorrow at 6 am. I am scared out of my mind ( Read more... )

Attention world: I just got 96 points in Scrabble by putting "Quiz" on a triple word score.
Bow down and bring me cookies!

:P

I got in to OCS.

After a year and four months, I actually got in.

!!!!!

I leave at the end of May. I have a future! :P

I am home. I made lemon bars today, and Roberto and I made sauteed chicken and home-made potato chips for dinner yesterday. When I retire, I want to go to culinary school. Or be a pastry chef and made dessert allll the time ( Read more... )

and then, there was job anxiety.

but i slept very well last night, and it's a beautiful morning, and i'm done at the hellhole that is Cafe Roma next wednesday, and next friday i'm helping a non-profit dig up a streambed to create a floodplain.

maybe i'll figure it out.

This is the first time I can remember when I've woken up sad. I can't remember what I dreamed last night, but something must have been pretty terrible, because I seriously considered going back to bad and sleeping for as long as possible in order to put of everything else. I may even have given myself a quasi-migraine and dizzy spells at work; Nida ( Read more... )

1. Giving two weeks notice in exactly 9 days ( Read more... )

I got a call from my recruiter today, and my BUMED waiver was approved. Finally, finally, after 5 years, I am medically cleared for military service ( Read more... )

Rain!