Monday, May 22, 2006

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    Week two!

    And no, I don't lose points for not updating over the weekend... I'll update after work days, not every single day.  So with that in mind, last Friday I slept til a delightful 11:00.  Left around 1, stopped at the academy to exchange a t-shirt and pick up some copies of the Trident with my article in it .  Back to Pennsylvania, only to leave literally 10 minutes later to go to my sister's choral concert and see how shitty the BC music program has gotten.

    Went to bed at like... 12?  Or something.  I blame the rhino.  Only to wake up at 3:55.  I thought, okay, cool, I can shut my 4 a.m. alarm off.  Wrong, shipmate.  Phone rings at 5:00... Jen saying, "Are you coming?"  Me:  "...shit..."  realizing what had happened.  Jumped into my uniform, and eventually into my car and met up with the rest of the Altoona people and had our usual convoy down to Harrisburg for Armed Forces Day.  'Twas okay at times, sucky at others, but all around alright I guess.  My commentary to myself all day long, largely in Aqua Teen quotes, made it bearable.  They did it differently this year and flew out the helicopters the same day, so we didn't need to stay and do site security overnight.  But by that point, I was beat... it was too late to go back to Maryland to the ring dance (not that I had a pass to get into it anyway).  The rest of the CAP people were camping out in the 306 squadron building in Middlestown, so I did the same. 

    Ghetto!  Holy shite.  It looks like all the rusted out steel buildings in Johnstown driving out to this place.  Actually, it made me think of the Narrows in Batman Begins, lol.  Later that evening, we went out to a Turkey Hill and a McDonalds (where they gave me a 50% military discount for having on my field jacket... hot shit) and I was playing Biggie Smalls, which made me moderately afraid that I was going to get shot in the Turkey Hill parking lot.

    I watched a little Family Guy and Aqua Teen on my laptop until this cadet finally got a projector set up with his PS2.  He played some Lego Star Wars, lol... then put in Super Troopers.  It just wasn't the same watching it with a bunch of 15-year-old cadets who didn't think "Uhh, good!" was hilarious.

    Left the next morning, got directions to a Church, washed my hair in the sink of said Church to get rid of my wicked bed head, then went to Mass, then had to jet back to Maryland to be with my grandmother (who just broke her arm and had a hip replaced) so my dad could get back to Pennsylvania -- who had been staying with her most of the week while my aunt and uncle and their kids were in Florida.

    I also went grocery shopping yesterday to start packing my own lunches.  Oohhh was that pitiful, watching me try to shop.  But I found cheap-ass bread, some ham, yogurt, rice cakes, and cheese.  Apparently, Monterey Jack doesn't come sliced.  Wtf.

    Then today, it was back to the grind.  Had to get information for this one story, went to an awards ceremony, went to graduation practice, took pictures of the academy jazz band playing -- my favorite part of the day, by far.  They played "Fly Me to the Moon," and "Blue Skies," among others.  They had this vocalist singing "Blue Skies," too, so it was quite cool.

    Graduation rehearsal was a hoot.  They played "Pomp and Circumstance" and one midshipman was like, "This song sucks!" practice-processing in.  Oh, and apparently there's apparently 3 midshipmen somehow being commissioned in the Air Force and one in the Army.  I have no idea how that works, but during the practice, the superintendent was like, "...And we won't have the traditional 'Beat Army!' at the end, because one of your classmates is entering the Army," and that midshipman raised her hand like *yeah, it's me..* and everyone turned and booed her like crazy.  Tool humor, maybe... but I was amused.

    Ohh, the Tramaine quotes... I know there were a lot of them, but I forget.  The most notable ones were about white women... ranging from watching the.. bounce.. of one of them on the sidewalk when we were driving somewhere, to him saying, "So I used to hate on white women when I was younger, but now... there's some hot ones."

    That, and his talking about graduating from boot camp and how "We had to do all kinds of stupid shit like stand at attention for 3 hours straight.  But there was this hot-ass female in front of me, so it was alright." 

    "So you really were standing at 'attention,' weren't you?" I said.

    When he finally caught on, "Yeah, basically," he laughed.

    Go Navy.

    Bed time!  I'm tired as hell.  Bon nuit, mes amis

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