We’re in Boise! I’m out of the Marine Corps! I got a scooter!
See you in a few months!
Posts Tagged marine corps
Unnecessary Excitement
Mar 30
Cots and scorpions
Nov 12
So I spent a month or so in Arizona sleeping on a cot in a military tent with 9 other guys and a few scorpions. I used to love camping. After I get out I don’t think I’m going to be into it any more. Or maybe it’s going to be “camping” like Gesi expects with an RV and running water. Whatever. I’m glad I was only gone for a month, any longer and I probably wouldn’t have a dog. Gesi nearly convinced me that Jewel had to go, well she did but then I renigged on her once I got back and saw the mutt again. I just like her too much.
Have a vacation trip to FL and the Bahama’s coming up in Dec, and my brother is getting married at the beginning of the year, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make that. Rather doubt it actually.
Unable to concentrate
Dec 1
Since I began considering the Marine Corps as part of my future I’ve been unable to concentrate on my schoolwork. I am weeks behind in physics and I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m not looking forward to it at all. I have been unable to motivate myself because I hope that it won’t matter. I want to be a Marine. And at first, while they were still telling me that my bum knee wouldn’t be a problem everything seemed to be going great. But now things have begun to look a little different and the schoolwork I neglected earlier is going to have to be faced. Bad news on both accounts and no easy way out.
How can I let myself be so lazy? What happened to the determination that used to define who I was? Where has my self-integrity gone? Since removing television from my life, three days ago, I’ve had more and more time to analyze my dejected state. And while that’s brought me to new levels of self-loathing, it has not done much for my motivation. I wish I could just snap out of it. But I’ve been trying for days now over the Thanksgiving break and all I have to show for it is a completed Rubik’s cube and a couple more games of chess under my belt. Pleasant these things are, but not what I need.
