Army Post Road

I actually do make my own head hurt. 

And you all thought you were just joking when you warned me about thinking.

I should've taken up boxing if I wanted to beat myself up this much.

One thing I didn't touch on last night was that I'm also in the difficult predicament of I would normally talk to my friend about any girl (he knows far more sordid details about me and girls than anyone save for probably only one guy) but how do you go to a guy and talk about a girl when that girl is his daughter? I still have someone I can talk it all over with but it's awkward and frustrating that I can't talk to my best friend about one of my current crushes. It stinks because I just absolutely don't want to be less than forthcoming and straightforward with him but I don't want the opposite side of the coin of being totally frank and then having that awkward cloud over us. On top of it, how comfortable is he going to feel knowing a very substantial portion of all my boudoir stories but that I also like his daughter?  Grr I'm not getting my point across very well.

    If there were any night that one of the biggest frustrations of my OWI is that I can't be a cop any time soon were super apparent, tonight was it.  I was coming back from North Liberty hanging out with Steve and Laura and I turned the corner at Linn and Washington and there was a kid getting a total beat down and I stopped to help him and realized that I was probably just stepping into my own beat down so I popped a U-y in the street to give myself just that much more time and the guys beating on him dispersed and I was able to flag an IC cop down right away but still it was infuriating that I had to let that kid take it for that few more seconds just because this lawless crowd decided that he was their focus and I was only going to endanger myself by trying to disrupt them.  That also points out the disrepect that a large number of people have for general law and order and the extra power a car with a light bar on top has. 

     On top of those frustations, what do you do when you have an intense physical attraction to someone and they are really a very close personality match to you, but they've got a boyfriend (of ambiguous but somewhat serious importance) and her father is pretty much your best friend?  The really strange thing is I think I've built in some sort of barrier to the whole thing because there is my strong attraction physically and intellectually but it's not a real hurt that there are the huge impediments to the whole thing.  I don't know if that means the emotional thing isn't really there (probably).  I have a ton of respect for her boyfriend and just who her dad is is tremendously intimidating.  I really try to abide by the rule of any Soldier's (Sailor's, Marine's, Airman's) girilfriend is as good as married and I simply can't abide anyone who wants to mess with that but this situation just feels different.  What's even more, is that her boyfriend lives down at Ft Riley and as we all know, I'm on my way there in January.  I've already been told that when I get down there, I need to hang out with him and chill all the time.  I really just wish it were a simpler situation. 

I was watching the news and they were talking about the recent rash of women teachers that have been caught sleeping with their students, and one of the pundits suggested that the students should be “held accountable.”  For what?!  I cannot see at all what these students did wrong at all.  There are the moral issues to the matter but if the kids assume responsibility for whatever possible pregnancies, there is not one single conceivable thing that these students, male or female, are culpable for.  The teachers are absolutely liable for whatever statutory rape crimes their state wants to prosecute them for but really, what have these students done wrong?  Unless these students are raping their teachers, which there is the case of that missing teacher in Georgia where they think that might be the case somewhat, the state and the schools have no standing whatsoever to punish these students.  Their parents? Yes.  Public authorities? Not at all.  It just annoyed me that anyone would be so disingenuous as to attack these students when they would have most likely done the same thing if they had been presented with the same situation when they were in high school. 

Now that I've had my soapbox moment, it's time to head out and get something to eat before I go to work for 10 hours (Yes folks, that's 10 hours of pure overtime pay; the silver lining to working on a holiday).

P.S. You know how much my heart skipped when a plastic bag was in front of my sub and I thought it was the sound of my sub being totally ripped to shreds?

Winter is truly here.  I'm sure just about everyone writing a journal entry in Iowa City (or Iowa in just about its entirety) started off their entries just like that today.  The snow and whatnot really doesn't matter to me (other than people think they can drive even faster in it for some reason), but the sudden, huge swing in temperatures was a huge shock.  It was in the 60s and 70s last week and right now it's about 15 degrees outside.  Its so cold and so much colder than it was that even I have lost my desire to go out tonight.  Usually I mock the people who want to stay in just because it's the first cold night of the season or it's rainy but it was a 50-some degree swing, that's just extreme. 

I've been working days for the second week in a row and it's been AWESOME.  That is all.

I've been watching lots of MTV lately.  Right now it's an episode of Made about a kid who wants to be made into a ladies man and get a prom date. 

“Have a happy period.  Always.”  That commercial gave me chills.

The shows on MTV are almost nothing but high school drama.  Either they're actually about high schoolers (Laguna or most of Made) or people acting like high schoolers (Real World, Next).  You would almost think that MTV doesn't want its viewers to escape their high school experience. 

Definitely a collection of very fun nights this past week.  Total ridiculousness too.  Thursday night wasn't ridiculous but Monday night and last night were.  I literally have pain and marks.

Without going back and looking, I don't know if I said on here that they told me that all of us that have volunteered to go to Ft Riley have a tentative report date of 23 January 2006. 

So I haven't posted for a bit.  I'm not sure what could be said for that.  I haven't really had a reason to post I guess.  Not a whole lot going on before this week when I've had a few completely ridiculous nights. 

I guess I'm still not really feeling like posting.  Maybe later.