March 5th... already.
Five days into the month and I already am not a fan of it. I figured that it would be some slight improvement over February, but alas I was wrong. It happens.
I am still in the field, trying to find some kind of silver lining to all of this 'training", yet I cannot find any. Since the first two days of setup we have done nothing but sit around on our ass and attempt to stay warm. We pass the time with our laptops, but watching the same old reruns from long-passed shows only entertains you for so long before boredom ensues and you are left with nothing but the collective thoughts rolling around in your brain.
I wish that there was more to do around here except work and sleep but literally that is it. Work and sleep. I could sleep 14 hours a day but that gets old and I think it becomes harmful to sleep for so long after a while. Like I said, I could be wrong.
We come home on the 11th...that's tentatively. Everything in the Army is tentatively. For all I know the second coming will be on the 10th or North Korea will finally decide that South Korea isn't worth being attached to them and come here to blow us all up. Or the higher-ups in their infinite wisdom, will decide to extend the exercise an extra week. Who knows? I'm not holding me breath for anything one way or the other.
I do miss a warm bed though. Warm food. A hot shower that isn't trying to rip my skin off every time someone flushes a toilet. I think these are pretty basic human needs and yet the military cannot provide any of them. Living in mud and trying to get through day in and day out of cold rainy conditions can take it's toll on a person after a while. On top of that there is no privacy here whatsoever. I'm used to being able to retreat and regroup in solitude but that's not possible here. In the middle of the Korean woods there are no places to hide, no places to think and definitely no places to have a moment's peace and quiet.
I just want a quiet room with a bottle of wine or whiskey and my computer. Just to write, reflect and recharge my batteries because they are almost on "E" and they need charged.
Besides that rant, I am alive. That's good, right? Is that the silver lining that will make it all worth it? Probably. 140 days left in Korea and I wait with bated breath every second that passes that I will find out my next duty station. Any place except Hell itself would be better than being on this peninsula.
I miss my friends. I miss my family. I miss being me.
El Fin.
<3
Ps. I will be in California (in the bay area and LA) from July 30th to August 3rd. If people want to hang. Let me know asap.
Five days into the month and I already am not a fan of it. I figured that it would be some slight improvement over February, but alas I was wrong. It happens.
I am still in the field, trying to find some kind of silver lining to all of this 'training", yet I cannot find any. Since the first two days of setup we have done nothing but sit around on our ass and attempt to stay warm. We pass the time with our laptops, but watching the same old reruns from long-passed shows only entertains you for so long before boredom ensues and you are left with nothing but the collective thoughts rolling around in your brain.
I wish that there was more to do around here except work and sleep but literally that is it. Work and sleep. I could sleep 14 hours a day but that gets old and I think it becomes harmful to sleep for so long after a while. Like I said, I could be wrong.
We come home on the 11th...that's tentatively. Everything in the Army is tentatively. For all I know the second coming will be on the 10th or North Korea will finally decide that South Korea isn't worth being attached to them and come here to blow us all up. Or the higher-ups in their infinite wisdom, will decide to extend the exercise an extra week. Who knows? I'm not holding me breath for anything one way or the other.
I do miss a warm bed though. Warm food. A hot shower that isn't trying to rip my skin off every time someone flushes a toilet. I think these are pretty basic human needs and yet the military cannot provide any of them. Living in mud and trying to get through day in and day out of cold rainy conditions can take it's toll on a person after a while. On top of that there is no privacy here whatsoever. I'm used to being able to retreat and regroup in solitude but that's not possible here. In the middle of the Korean woods there are no places to hide, no places to think and definitely no places to have a moment's peace and quiet.
I just want a quiet room with a bottle of wine or whiskey and my computer. Just to write, reflect and recharge my batteries because they are almost on "E" and they need charged.
Besides that rant, I am alive. That's good, right? Is that the silver lining that will make it all worth it? Probably. 140 days left in Korea and I wait with bated breath every second that passes that I will find out my next duty station. Any place except Hell itself would be better than being on this peninsula.
I miss my friends. I miss my family. I miss being me.
El Fin.
<3
Ps. I will be in California (in the bay area and LA) from July 30th to August 3rd. If people want to hang. Let me know asap.
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lilcupcake:
work and sleep....sounds like me! I am exhausted all the time 
saillesong:
bawls! i wish you were in california now. I'm here now! Keep your chin up. It will all be over soon.