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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

57 Things I Know

1. Saying goodbye to friends never gets any easier. 2. Watermelon is a delicacy in Korea. The going rate is $9.99 on post on sale, 7,000 won off-post. 3. Moo-Moo isn’t so afraid to walk past scary monsters anymore. 4. Spending 30 minutes to fill out an online Army survey about your outrageously high utility [...]

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

For What It’s Worth

The good news is that I’ve psuedo-successfully completed my first 4-day training class and got something to show for it. It’s the Commander’s Award for Public Service complete with matching medals. I shook the General’s hand, stood there & smiled for all the pictures and thanked all the women for coming. It made Eric happy [...]

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

What Was I Thinking

But I can tell you what I wasn’t thinking… I wasn’t thinking about how I have no way of relating to these women. I wasn’t thinking about how my pre-written intro would be passed along to the General only for him to hit point by point everything I had planned to say. I wasn’t thinking [...]