| Thursday, May 30th, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:15p - Eh...work rants Not too much to say really...work's been taking all my energy lately. To just ICE that cake, I found out today that I have staff duty Saturday AND next Thursday...as well as head count on the 11th AND Saturday the 15th. I can't say I'm so surprised about all this though...what with being gone last month and not having pulled any duty in a while, I KNEW I was gonna get hit hard...but c'mon! GRRRRRRRR. So it looks like work isn't going to get any better any time soon. The S1 NCOIC (that I fall under for accountability purposes) has been running PT pretty harsh lately because we are doing a PT test in July. It's good because I've gotten out of shape...but it makes getting out of bed just that much harder. It's not that I can't do the training...I just...i like doing it on my own, under my own terms, at my own time...something I have always had a problem about with the military. And then SFC S. asked me during PT if I was going to the E6 promotion board next month. He said he'd get a waiver so I could go even though I'm not technically eligible to go until November. I told him I wasn't going because "I'm not ready". He asked me to clarify so i just repeated myself a little more forcefully. I mean, what the fuck is the point of studying and getting into my class A's to stand in front of the SGMs and the CSM if I'm KNOW I'm never going to get promoted. EVEN IF, hypothetically speaking, my promotion points dropped from the maximum standing (798) they've sat at for i dunno, FOREVER? I don't have the time in service or the time in service remaining (you have to have at least one year and if you don't have a full year left, you hafta reenlist or extent...yeah sure thing there) to be promoted...not even with a waiver. So when I say "I'm not ready," what I really mean is "fuck you and fuck the board, what's the fucking point?"...in slightly more PC terms. I mean shit, maybe he should stop to think about it for a second...what if they ask me what my plans are and why I am at the board? My answer? "I ETS next May and going back to school. I have no plans to make E6. I'm here beacause SFC S. made me come. In essence, I'm wasting your time." I hardly think that would go over so well for him. Not that he's not a nice guy, mind you...just a little more hard headed about my getting out than most. Damn but I can't wait to be out. current mood: aggravated
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