| | wow. believe it or not, i am still alive. no matter how outdated my xanga is.
i have been in the army for 11 months now. so bizarre. and it's absolutely impossible to explain the army unless u have experience in it - something magic happens the first night you sleep in the barracks, the first time u meet a drill sergeant, first time you clean a rifle, and you all of a sudden just get it. you understand the love/hate relationship with everything military, the totally ridiculous proportion of it that is silly and tedious and "good training", the strange pride u still take in it ... sometimes, the totally crappy and somehow still awesome equipment u get issued - and then get sick of b/c it sucks carrying it around. being in the army is not really difficult at all. just annoying. and u find people u love and want to make your bff-aeaeae (yes, most army ppl around came straight out of high school and are still not old enough to drink - hence the retro acronyms). and u find people u very quickly cannot stand and would like to never see or hear (or smell!) ever again.
ohhhh - i'm forgetting. the very worst part of the army for me right now - is the 4id (4th infantry division - division being really really big and having thousands of people in it) song - the song we have to sing every morning at 6:30 after saluting the flag and before pt. yayyyy. not only do military people generally not sing well - we're forced to sing at unholy hours of the morning about how fit and ready and totally psyched we are. no seriously - we punch the air while pretending to yell "our soldiers ROAR for freedom" at 0631 every single morning mon-fri. we were so bad last week our sergeants made each line of our formation sing it again by themselves. what's better than a round of the 4id song? 6 ROUNDS OF THE 4TH ID SONG!!
okay i'm done w/ making fun of our unit's "team spirit" - it's just that sort of thing that makes me happy in a weird sort of way to have been chosen for this month's funeral detail. we have one week of learning to fold flags and carry caskets and fire the volleys in honor of the dead - and then we go to whatever funerals they call us to over the next 3 weeks. it's a little strange - especially since we've practiced so many times we're already pretty numb to it. but at least it's something REAL. it's the first time in years i've had a job that i really felt is truly going to matter to somebody.
on other matters, i am going to get a fishtank. w/ 2 fish and a snail - yellow mystery. i have a new car - well "new" w/ a couple hundred ... thousand miles on it - but it's ok b/c the 2 sunroofs totally make up for it. hmm, and our not-yet-5-month-old puppy, mimi, weighs over 40 pounds. she is awesome. i would post a picture if i were rich enough to buy a digital camera yet. and for anyone still in north carolina - i'm tentatively planning to visit the first few days of august - let me know if u wanna do something - but call or im b/c, as u can see, i never check this thing.
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| | Posted 7/7/2007 1:08 AM - 34 Views - 2 eProps - 2 comments
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