....yes thats right folks, as i sit here and type this, yet another round of false alarm fire alarms is going off in my ear...do mind it, well yeah, is it piercing and terribly painful...of course it is...am i used to it by now, yeah..welcome to UVI, where things that should work dont, like coffee machines, computers, videoconfrencing software(just little stuff) and things that shouldnt be a big deal*or need testing* somehow do work way too much, a la this damn alarm system...not once,twice, but three times already today (tis before 10am) has the freakin thing gone off in the dorms...on top of the fact that the night before it went off in regular intervals of 3am,4am,and 5am..to be coupled with the same pattern two nights in a row has become...i should say old...and lord knows the security folks can't seem to fix it, they just let it go, since they,in their '07 avalanches can't hear a blasted thing, really dont mind it...but wait she just pulled up so we'll see what happens...it just went quiet, so we'll see..honestly i give it another minute before we get the resounding peal of another alarm to be sounded...but enough about stupid stuff like that..what have i been up to, and where are my musings on deeper things you ask?
...happy martin luther king day to all! as yesterday seem
ed somehow more fitting for the athleticly inclined to do their thing, then yesterday it was..in typical crucian style, two events where held at the same time after a few weeks of no activities, both a bike race,out on the east end loop, one that takes rides over the same stretch of roadway where the filmed the ending scene to shawshank redemption, driving the corvette around a curve and yeah...anywhoo thats beside the point, but just a little fun fact for ya..but aside from having the bike ride which took the longest person an hour to do the 13 miles, those of us who felt the call a tad earlier *6am,not 7am* took off from ft.christian in christiansted and ran a brutal 15.5miles to the other town on the island, stopping at ft.frederick in fredricksted...all in all it was a good time..never having run through the rainforest, it was a new experience, one that was mostly uphill and rather damp most of the way..aside from a few moments of 'where do we go' out on the run, it went well..since only 8 people did the run, and it wasnt advertised as a race, the competitive spirit wasn't quite there, but this other kid and i from the island came in at the same time after talking our way to the end at the last 3 miles haha...what else do you do when you've been running for over two hours, i got tired of hearing myself breathe and wanted to get inside the head of someone as crazy as me to be up before the crack of dawn to do something such as run across the island..so i did..he's a cool kid, planning on going to either the coast gaurd academy, or the naval academy..he's applied for both..and the first thing i asked him after we had topped the last hill in the rainforest, was 'have you thought about the marine corps?' ..said he had and was still lookin in to it...so it was cool...but other than doing a bit of running during the week on the treadmill, nothing more than 3 miles at a time, i hadnt done a long run in weeks, so i was pretty impressed with my 2:26:51...of course i didnt actually urinate until around 3pm that afternoon, but such information probably shouldn't be shared....buuuut, ha! this is my blog...in other news we don't have cable or internet hooked up yet, though some of my residents have paid for it since...oh just the day they got here, so tempers are starting to flare around the tv room...glad i could care less about watchin' it...although its rather cloudy and rainy, and the alarms keep going off today, looks like ill just have to find something else to do besides lose braincells to another unworthy opponent...ah ha! and now for my little dab of a behavioral rant...
first of all, wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands...after you flush of course! thats all im gonna say..as an RA now i tend to notice things a little more that i didnt think id care about...but then again i always noticed that!
...the other day i was getting a burger, as the cafeteria decided to serve some sort of nasty fried fish, fried chicken..rice,of course :), and some nasty vegetables..so it was a burger night..anywhoo im sittin there reading(in public, you'd think its a sin down here) my intl. politics book, when this "cool" dude from rotc last semester walks up asking what was i reading? not that he cared at all, but i told him..he's no longer taking classes because he "lost too much money last semester"...ok dude is a PFC in the national gaurd unit down here..and no disrespect to the national gaurd, but he is a horrrible poster boy..pudgy, lazy, heavy smoker, had almost a full beard when i saw him...and seriously who drops out of school to go pull gaurd duty so he can make 18$ an hour and get hazard pay,since he has a loaded weapon on him...its a joke, it really is...so i said all that just to give you the idea of who and what we're working with in this instance,not some hardworkin' guy, but a lazy mug, who TALKS A LOT! ..he's one of those guys who lives off of the stories of others...after he asked why i was wearing my marine lanyard and t-shirt that said 'officer selection program' he made a few quips about 'jarhead this, and jarhead that' i just let it go...but what i almost couldnt let go was what came after, when he was tellin me how his unit got activated, and he was pulling the new security post and how "awesome" it was...(as its pretty much just a glitch in the system, that they got activated and yet stay put) but whatever...he went on to say how lazy he is, how much he can smoke and still get away with it, and then told me his plans that all he needs is some soldier of the year award and then he can start applying to airborn school, and qualifying for this advanced weapons training and whatnot....but not yet..itll be later on..and he's tellin me this in all seriousness, how he is gonna be the best...later,not now,but later...i couldnt help but laugh....i dont get it..but some people are that way i guess, and there's really nothing to 'get'...enough of that
...they still havent fixed the washing machine so i can wash and dry for just a dollar now...ooo baby is that a deal!!
im off to read and be quasi productive
...happy martin luther king day to all! as yesterday seem
ed somehow more fitting for the athleticly inclined to do their thing, then yesterday it was..in typical crucian style, two events where held at the same time after a few weeks of no activities, both a bike race,out on the east end loop, one that takes rides over the same stretch of roadway where the filmed the ending scene to shawshank redemption, driving the corvette around a curve and yeah...anywhoo thats beside the point, but just a little fun fact for ya..but aside from having the bike ride which took the longest person an hour to do the 13 miles, those of us who felt the call a tad earlier *6am,not 7am* took off from ft.christian in christiansted and ran a brutal 15.5miles to the other town on the island, stopping at ft.frederick in fredricksted...all in all it was a good time..never having run through the rainforest, it was a new experience, one that was mostly uphill and rather damp most of the way..aside from a few moments of 'where do we go' out on the run, it went well..since only 8 people did the run, and it wasnt advertised as a race, the competitive spirit wasn't quite there, but this other kid and i from the island came in at the same time after talking our way to the end at the last 3 miles haha...what else do you do when you've been running for over two hours, i got tired of hearing myself breathe and wanted to get inside the head of someone as crazy as me to be up before the crack of dawn to do something such as run across the island..so i did..he's a cool kid, planning on going to either the coast gaurd academy, or the naval academy..he's applied for both..and the first thing i asked him after we had topped the last hill in the rainforest, was 'have you thought about the marine corps?' ..said he had and was still lookin in to it...so it was cool...but other than doing a bit of running during the week on the treadmill, nothing more than 3 miles at a time, i hadnt done a long run in weeks, so i was pretty impressed with my 2:26:51...of course i didnt actually urinate until around 3pm that afternoon, but such information probably shouldn't be shared....buuuut, ha! this is my blog...in other news we don't have cable or internet hooked up yet, though some of my residents have paid for it since...oh just the day they got here, so tempers are starting to flare around the tv room...glad i could care less about watchin' it...although its rather cloudy and rainy, and the alarms keep going off today, looks like ill just have to find something else to do besides lose braincells to another unworthy opponent...ah ha! and now for my little dab of a behavioral rant...first of all, wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands...after you flush of course! thats all im gonna say..as an RA now i tend to notice things a little more that i didnt think id care about...but then again i always noticed that!
...the other day i was getting a burger, as the cafeteria decided to serve some sort of nasty fried fish, fried chicken..rice,of course :), and some nasty vegetables..so it was a burger night..anywhoo im sittin there reading(in public, you'd think its a sin down here) my intl. politics book, when this "cool" dude from rotc last semester walks up asking what was i reading? not that he cared at all, but i told him..he's no longer taking classes because he "lost too much money last semester"...ok dude is a PFC in the national gaurd unit down here..and no disrespect to the national gaurd, but he is a horrrible poster boy..pudgy, lazy, heavy smoker, had almost a full beard when i saw him...and seriously who drops out of school to go pull gaurd duty so he can make 18$ an hour and get hazard pay,since he has a loaded weapon on him...its a joke, it really is...so i said all that just to give you the idea of who and what we're working with in this instance,not some hardworkin' guy, but a lazy mug, who TALKS A LOT! ..he's one of those guys who lives off of the stories of others...after he asked why i was wearing my marine lanyard and t-shirt that said 'officer selection program' he made a few quips about 'jarhead this, and jarhead that' i just let it go...but what i almost couldnt let go was what came after, when he was tellin me how his unit got activated, and he was pulling the new security post and how "awesome" it was...(as its pretty much just a glitch in the system, that they got activated and yet stay put) but whatever...he went on to say how lazy he is, how much he can smoke and still get away with it, and then told me his plans that all he needs is some soldier of the year award and then he can start applying to airborn school, and qualifying for this advanced weapons training and whatnot....but not yet..itll be later on..and he's tellin me this in all seriousness, how he is gonna be the best...later,not now,but later...i couldnt help but laugh....i dont get it..but some people are that way i guess, and there's really nothing to 'get'...enough of that
...they still havent fixed the washing machine so i can wash and dry for just a dollar now...ooo baby is that a deal!!
im off to read and be quasi productive
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