Army Post Road

Hey, look at that: I went all weekend without posting.  How about that.   

I guess nothing really of note happened all weekend. 

Since MAJ Scherer passed along the e-mail asking for volunteers for the brigade deployment in April, my feeling that I'm not getting deployed gets stronger.  I hope upon hope that it's not just err, false hope (How many guys use hope three times in a sentence?). 

Wow, that last little comment sent me off on one of the strangest tangent thoughts I've ever had.  My AP Lang/Comp teacher would swoon to know what I was thinking.  If parenthetical asides mean anything to you, post a comment.

Back to my original thought.  I keep thinking that I should be checking what jobs and apartments are available in Iowa City like I know for sure I'm going to need either soon.  It's a nice thought to think that I am but before this call for volunteers went out, it was kind of a consensus that I was going to be at the top of the list of people going to Ft Riley.  But, my hope for not going rests on a couple things: some of the people that were released early from the deployment last summer may decide they want to be on AD again and volunteer just for that reason; some people may be in a timing situation opposite from mine in that now is better than November for whatever reason (kind of like last November would've been MUCH more perfect for me than any other time); some people may just want a job and being on AD could be sweet for them (AD= active-duty); or some people are just paranoid and convinced they're going to get selected for deployment and they might as well bite the bullet and just volunteer to lock down their plans (don't kid yourself, the thought has crossed my mind quite a few times).  With all that, even if they don't get the whole block of people they need to volunteer, if enough enlisted Staff personnel volunteer, I may not be needed and they may see that I am needed by the battalion here at home.  I'm not being self-important here.  S3 (training and operations) function would probably be severely hampered if I were deployed so I think the commanders and MAJ Scherer would recognize that I would be much more worth the money serving on Rear-Detachment in Des Moines than what they might slot me into down there (OPFOR would be tons of fun if I did get put into that though).  Cross your fingers. 

It's Valentine's Day and I'm not super-stressed over it!  I can't remember when that wasn't the case.  It might be all the way back to freshman year in high school (but who knows, I may've been stressin' over Morgan then too, I just don't remember.).  I guess I didn't really stress over it sophomore year since I was with Mara at that point.  Haha and the two years before freshman year were years I was big pimpin' so I wasn't stressed over it then either.  Hmm, maybe just the last three years of being stressed were an anomaly and the rest weren't stressful.  Let's think back… junior year: I don't remember… hmm I'm getting things confused between junior and senior years.  Junior year I was stressing over Kelsey and Katie. Mostly Katie at that point because Kelsey and I hadn't really started yet.  Ah yes, senior year. Super-duper stress.  That was the year of Kristen. 

Goodness,  I don't know where on Earth to start on that one.  Here's how I found out she and Jason were going out:
     Me: “So who's Kristen here with?”
     Sarah: “Uh, her boyfriend Jason, duh.”
Hot stuff, huh?  But ya'll know me, boyfriend-shmoyfriend, right?  (Two questions in a row are hot, right?)  I guess I was fairly shameless in pursuing her.  Valentine's was pretty bad.  It was the weekend of Winter Formal, the only non-Spree dance I didn't go to (haha mostly because Kristen hadn't broken up with Jason and gone with me, I was pretty pig-headed in insisting on going with her or no one).  Ya know, I still have all the notes she wrote me.  Probably nothing I should hold on to, I bet only trouble will come from them in the future.  Nonetheless, I don't think I want to throw them away just yet (any of you psych majors out there, analyze that!).  During the midst of all of that, I wrote a lot of long journal entries and letters I never gave her.  As much if not more than what I wrote during basic training.  Wow, I haven't put this much thought into her and the whole storyline for a long time.  Not good.  Oh well, can't control that I guess.  From what I've been told by Jess, I guess I came close a couple times to coming out on top in that situation (ooooh, good pun!).  Oh well, ya win some-ya lose some.  

Haha the DI's article on Valentine's bar crawls was awesome.  Only the DI would have articles about bar crawls.  Too bad there weren't any pics on the website edition. 

Ok, I've been working on this for more than an hour.  If I think up any more sappy, sentimental Valentine's stuff I'll be sure to come back and share.