So basically, there's 19 years of my life that hasn't been blogged yet, so I'll give a brief summary. First, I was born. Then, I went to high school and learned everything. After I finished all that, I went to work at Camp Winchester and learned a bunch more. Now I'm here at Texas A&M, trying to get a degree to show that I learned a bunch of stuff. Life is all about learning, I guess.
So far, fish year in the Corps has been super tough. I knew it would be, but stuff like this is so easy to talk about, but so different when you actually start doing it. I've thought about punching, or leaving the corps, probably almost every day since I've gotten here. It would be so easy, and so much fun, to just go to college like a normal person. This is cheaper, though... Oh well. Really, I guess the worst part is the lack of time to do anything that I really want to. My bass is up here, in the band hall, but I haven't gotten to play it at all yet. That might change tomorrow.
Today was a very good day. Today is Wednesday. Wednesdays are always good days for fish, because on Wednesday, there's no training time. That basically means that, instead of coming back from class and getting yelled at and having to do a bunch of pt, we start studying instead. We eat free-flow chow, which is dinner without the fish bites and annoying rules and stuff, and we usually have a Bible study with the outfit chaplain. Today was an especially good day, though. There was no particular reason for it, it just kinda happened at first. Now, however, I have plenty of reasons. First, I got to class on time, for the first time in at least three weeks. Second, I just decided today was gonna be good, and third, today was our outfit's Halloween costume party. That meant that all the fish got to pull out the costumes they had been making for their sophomores and dress them up in them. Mine was dressed up as a "trailer king," or basically a redneck, and he loved it. He had the blue jumpsuit, the white, sauce-stained tank top, the mullet, the trucker hat, boots, and even a beer belly. All of the sophomores were laughing and smiling and joking with us, which NEVER happens. They aren't allowed to. Today was special, though, cuz today was a very good day.
