| Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002
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Today was an odd sort of day. It's gonna take some interaction on your part to picture it, mmmmk? You know how sometimes you wake up and you just KNOW it's going to be a crazy, weird, hectic day? That you're gonna end up staying like a bizillion hours late at work, people are gonna be pulling you apart to get you to research something, process some paperwork, listen in on a brief, give an opinion, etc, etc. The kind of day you just tear your hair out in frustration and go home feeling you ended the day with a net result of MORE of a workload than you started with? Yeah...that's how I felt when I woke up this morning. So many open ends right now, and things I can't do JACK about. I could have sworn it was all going to come to a head today. I had two summarized article 15s for A Co to take care of today (which is funny because, while I had staff duty saturday, I myself picked the two soldiers up from the airport on their way back from RoK). Built up built up built up and...nothing. Like...NOTHING happened today. No one showed up that needed briefing (or to brief me, for that matter). Hardly ANYONE had any questions for me. No new actions came in, no new paperwork. The biggest thing all day was PT and those 2 article 15s....the latter of which were both over and done with so fast it was almost a scandal. For the first time in weeks I actually got bored while at work today! so I just about ended up tearing my hair out in frustration for ENTIRELY different reasons than I had anticipated. Grrrr....sigh....eh? God I feel so...unbalanced right now. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up feeling the same way I woke up today...only time will tell how the day ends up THIS time! To top it all off, Jentwo just wrote an entry that made me positively WALLOW in homesickness. Sigh A bit about D. H. Lawrence now, if you will allow me the intrusion of *gasp* literary discussion. _Women in Love_. Great book...some wonderfully insightful characters. I have dogearned and annotated several pages of this novel...mostly dealing with philosophical waxings on love (go figure, with the title as it is, huh?). I saw my past self in the character of Birkin on numerous occasions and it triggered some interesting thougths of my own... When I read _Passage to India_ I would have done the same to the book (had I not borrowed the book from the library...least I think I borrowed it). Conclusion. Lawrence has got some GREAT philosophical passages. Problem...that's just about ALL his novels are. Makes for very slow reading. I started _Women in Love_ on my trip to the states in October and I am just now finished with it (well, nearly, I have about 20 pages). As I said...wonderful book, but it has TOTALLY FUCKED my reading list! Now I have to read something delightfully witty, humorous, and engrossing (i.e. translation: read in a day or two kind of novels) like _One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest_ to get back on track. Ron Kesey died recently...he wrote for Rolling Stoneand they did a bit about him when he died...that's the only way I knew he was a rock journalist. So after I finish the books I brought WITH me on vacation, I can start on the ones that I brought BACK with me from vacation...like this massive, 500 page beast by Hesse, _The Glass Bead Game_ for example. (Normally I would hardly consider 500 pages a beast...but if you've read Hesse you know how long his 150 some odd page novels can take to read sometimes!). This is one of those evenings where I'm restless and want to write on and on and on... I LOVE the new RealPlayer. Why? Because I FINALLY have a program that scans all my media files and allows EASY random, continous playback. My sister called TWICE this weekend to thank me for her birthday flowers...and I friggin MISSED BOTH CALLS! GAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR. And this podunk calling card I have atm only has like 10 minutes left on it. *Cry* Did I mention how homesick I feel right now? Did I mention how hard a nic fit I'm having right now? D'von won't even get into it with me about the $1k on the Schoeps or the $1k I'm about to drop on a mic preamp for said Schoeps...I never even mentioned the money for the custom cables I'll need (prolly another $1k!). One of the paralegal NCOs I associate with offered to teach me how to surf (the waves here are pretty good in the winter) tomorrow or this weekend if I can't make it out tomorrow. Cool! I have at least that to look forward to tomorrow. He's even got a board I can borrow! Let's see...long as I'm feeling long winded what else shall I bring up? Hmm....well hell I can't come up with anything even *remotely* interesting...let ALONE entertaining. "Band's you wanted to fuck...but are gone now." Clay from Chuck Wow, on Veruca Salt. current mood: weird
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