So, the following probably won't make much sense to most of you, or at least my excitement surrounding this news won't make much sense, but bear with me ( Read more... )

I didn't know it was possible to function on any less sleep that I was getting ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving everyone ( Read more... )

Thats right boys and girls, after 4 weeks of disciplined hell, culminating in a Room-Locker-Personel (RLP) Inspection Thursday (see more details below) I am now finally a secured candidate, which means that tonight I will be going out and hitting the town on liberty in my Summer White Uniform for the first time. Look out Pensacola here I come ( Read more... )

So I'm here, but suprisingly there wasn't a welcome parade or anything, it feels so anticlimactic ( Read more... )

There's something I probably should have told all of you ( Read more... )

Prepare for a rant... in 3....2....1 ( Read more... )

Do any of you remember this? Baz Luhrman. Better than most graduation advice ( Read more... )

I notice that I often seem to post in my journal that I'm coming back from doing things that I never told anybody I was going off to do in the first place. Not like going to the grocery store, that would just be tedious, but big things. Anyways I just got back an hour or so ago from backpacking in Eastern Washington for 4 days. There's something ( Read more... )

Honor.
Courage.
Commitment.

"Honor [is] simply the courage to commit to a belief... where honor, courage, and commitment intersect [is] in people of real character." -Thomas J. Miller

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy." -General Norman Schwartzkopf