And now for something completely different....
Posted by Holden on 07/03/2006 at 03:47
Filed Under: Real Life
The following is an excerpt of an email I just sent to someone with some slight modifications to make it applicable to our little universe here. As I was reading the mail over, I realized that I thought it would translate pretty well over to dalif.com, so here we are...
Okay, on to the reason why I'm feeling a bit scatter-brained at the moment...What I've really been thinking hard about doing is joining the Army. More to the point, as of about an hour before me writing this, I now have taken their entrance test and have a job reserved for me. All that's left for me to do at this point is pass a physical at the end of this week and sign some papers upon doing so. From there, it's a month before I go off to basic training and job training for basically the rest of the year and who knows where from there. Now, at this point, I imagine you're thinking/saying to yourself/the person nearest to you, "What the fuck?", and I don't blame you. There's a laundry list of reasons as to why I think this makes sense as far as them paying for me to finish school/get a masters, a nice little signing bonus, the opportunity to see the world, learn foreign languages, etc. Then again, I am sitting here very much in a "what the fuck" state of mind right this very second. I can't help but think that I've got to be able to think of something that doesn't require me to put my ass on the line quite to this degree, but, if there is, why haven't I found it/thought of it in the past year?
Anyway, I realize through my fuddled thinking that this is a way weird thing to have thrown out there by someone you [don't know and very likely could care less about. Dalif excepted of course, as he and I can't quit each other =P ]. Of course, I guess it would be at least as odd for me to be [posting] for the next however many weeks and then all of a sudden drop the "I can't write for two months while I am in basic training" bomb. So yeah, that's where I'm at right now and it's a pretty surreal place, I'm finding. I'd love to hear any feedback you could possibly have. On the other hand, I don't what the hell I'd say to anyone who told me that out of the blue, so...
Either way, I can be fairly confident that that's about the most random thing you'll be told today and that's got to be worth something =)
[ ] - modified sections, and, yes, that is a little Brokeback Mountain reference in honor of their Oscar win for best picture. What's that...they didn't win? Ah well....
Okay, on to the reason why I'm feeling a bit scatter-brained at the moment...What I've really been thinking hard about doing is joining the Army. More to the point, as of about an hour before me writing this, I now have taken their entrance test and have a job reserved for me. All that's left for me to do at this point is pass a physical at the end of this week and sign some papers upon doing so. From there, it's a month before I go off to basic training and job training for basically the rest of the year and who knows where from there. Now, at this point, I imagine you're thinking/saying to yourself/the person nearest to you, "What the fuck?", and I don't blame you. There's a laundry list of reasons as to why I think this makes sense as far as them paying for me to finish school/get a masters, a nice little signing bonus, the opportunity to see the world, learn foreign languages, etc. Then again, I am sitting here very much in a "what the fuck" state of mind right this very second. I can't help but think that I've got to be able to think of something that doesn't require me to put my ass on the line quite to this degree, but, if there is, why haven't I found it/thought of it in the past year?
Anyway, I realize through my fuddled thinking that this is a way weird thing to have thrown out there by someone you [don't know and very likely could care less about. Dalif excepted of course, as he and I can't quit each other =P ]. Of course, I guess it would be at least as odd for me to be [posting] for the next however many weeks and then all of a sudden drop the "I can't write for two months while I am in basic training" bomb. So yeah, that's where I'm at right now and it's a pretty surreal place, I'm finding. I'd love to hear any feedback you could possibly have. On the other hand, I don't what the hell I'd say to anyone who told me that out of the blue, so...
Either way, I can be fairly confident that that's about the most random thing you'll be told today and that's got to be worth something =)
[ ] - modified sections, and, yes, that is a little Brokeback Mountain reference in honor of their Oscar win for best picture. What's that...they didn't win? Ah well....
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