Hurry Up and Wait

Such is the Marine Corps. And all Military I am told.

Why do i always wait to the VERY LAST minute to pack. 11 PM last night and I finally decide to finish packing. Lat minute run throughs are the worst. What did I forget, what am i gonna need, how am I gonna make it without just one more book?

To make things worse my newest lady friend can't sleep and wants to talk to me. Well okay why not. Last time I will see her for a month so she comes on over. As a side note of interest, why do women ALWAYS wait until you are about to fall asleep to start talking about "life and stuff"?

So when 2 in the morning runs by I HAVE to say goodbye. I have to be up in three hours and I am still not finished packing. I decide to put it off until(Morning?) five when I have to wake up. This usually goes one of two ways. Either I wake up as planned and am more refeshed for it...or I push the snooze four times and suddenly I am running around trying to get things done in five minutes. Luckily it was the former and I got up right on time.

Why am I waking up at 5 in the morning. Cause I have to be a Squadron at 6 or rather the bus is leaving for the airport at 6. If the bus leaves at six we have to be there at 5:45, which means we have to leave the barracks at 5:30. I can get ready in about three minutes but 30 is ideal for a good mindset.

So i get there on time, all is well. We are at the airport at 6:15 but our flights don't leave untill 9:00! I am furious, but whatever. Better to be safe then sorry I guess. The worst part is we land in Phoenix at 10:30, but the rest of the guys don't fly in 'till 3 PM.

So we wait in the USO, which we all love.
Waiting for a 4 hour bus ride to Yuma
Waiting for a 1 hour hike through the sand to get to site.
Waiting for a dark desert lit up by artificial lights to set up our gear.
Waiting for 95 degees and rising.
Waiting for anything active to do.
Waiting...Waiting...Waiting

A few things I have done in my boredom
Posted one, soon to be two posts.
Deleted 734 Messages dating clear back to febuary 10th
Wrote messages to Dustin Akerman, who i haven't seen sine the 10th grade, and Allyn Johnson who I haven't seen since the 6th grade.
Played 8 games of freecell, all won of course
Played 3 games of chess, 2 out of 3 won.
Won two golf tournaments on Tiger Woods 08
Watched a little Monk and a lot of That 70's show
Talked to Brandi, Which I haven't done since 29 Palms
Checked my Myspace...which I hate to do.
and Flirted with a Navy girl who is going to San Diego

If only I had a time machine...or a treadmill!

Good news is I found out that they are FINALLY starting filming on the Sequal to Booddock Saints. This means nothing to most but for ALL of my guys here it is a heaven sent message.
About time is all I can say. Speaking of which it is time to check up on a song of Fire and Ice...

I came, I babbled and hopefully I entertained