| | Yet again, I've fallen off the face of the xanga planet...It's one of those downhill spiral things. After I go a couple weeks without updating, it's like "well, what's one more week?" But I'm back now! We'll see how long it lasts ;) I'm back from the states now after 3 1/2 months. I got my dog this morning which is way way exciting! I was so happy to see him and he seemed equally thrilled to see me, so that was fun :) The lady at the kennel couldn't stop telling me how great he was. She
was impressed that he knew me since I was gone for so long. She said
usually when people are gone that long it takes a while for the dog to
warm back up to them. She was like "I see so many dogs that I don't
immediately fall in love with them very often. But the first time I
looked into Rocky's eyes I fell in love." And then she rambled on for
like 5 more minutes about how sweet he was. It made me really happy to
hear that he was so well behaved and had such a good time! She said her
son doesn't usually play with the dogs, but was out playing frisbee
with Rocky almost every day. And I guess he made a bunch of doggy
friends too :) Enough about my dog, but I'm so relieved that leaving him for so long didn't permanently scar him or anything!!
I got in yesterday and last night was a going away party for 3 people of the office, 2 of who I knew really well. I thought about skipping it because I was really tired when I got home.
I went straight from the airport to work to pick up my car. I stopped
in, said hi to my new boss, cleared the 10000 e-mails out of my
"deleted items" folder, did a couple other little errands like checking
my mail, and got home about 1. At that point I knew I would be sleeping
and then at the party, so I decided to let Rocky spend one more night
in the kennel since I wouldn't be around anyways. I went to bed about
2:30, woke up at 5 and was really really tired and grumpy. But I
decided to go anyways, and I'm so glad I did!!! It was great. I sat
with 2 of the 3 people who were going away (the 2 I knew) and a couple other people, including my new boss. We had a great time and it was really nice to
get to know Major Reburn in a social setting first. We had chatted for
like 3 minutes earlier that day, but it was all work stuff. He's so
cool! Super super chill, really nice, really easy to get along with,
and hilarious. We got along great :) It was really cool, too - Capt Gladden was one of the ones leaving. He trained me in my current job and in the 2 months I spent with him, I learned so much! I really look up to him as a professional role model in every sense of the word. Anyway, as
everyone was leaving and saying goodbye and stuff, Capt Gladden pulled
me aside. He basically said that he wanted to tell me personally how
impressed he was with me. He had a bunch of really nice compliments for me and wanted to make sure I wasn't thinking about getting out of the Air Force any time soon (the Air Force has way too many young officers in my career field, so it'd be really easy to leave). I respect him and his opinion a ton, so it was nice to hear that he appreciates the way I work too!
Hmm, here's a random story about my favorite quote from my time in Mississippi (I was reminded of it today somehow, which is why I'm thinking about it). I'm not sure how many people will appreciate it - it might be one of those things that you had to be there, but I thought it was good :) So my class is on a break, all standing around watching Fox News. A story comes on about Bill Clinton and a kid in my class says "didn't I hear that he was recently diagnosed with mental problems? Isn't he going crazy now?" I, being in a room full of military who are vastly conservative, blurt out "hasn't he always been?" It wasn't terribly funny or clever, but it drew a pretty impressive reaction from a couple girls in my class who got upset and stormed out of the room. I felt kind of bad and apologized for offending them. Lesson learned about making assumptions. Just because someone is in the military doesn't mean that they dislike the former President as much as I do. Anyways, fast forward a couple days when somehow the story has gotten around class. Everyone knew about my comment and their reaction. We're sitting there in class wondering why the mascot for the school is the Mad Ducks. Our teacher starts telling the story of how someone put it on the ballot as a joke and enough people voted for it as a joke that it won and now they're stuck with it. She finishes the story and without missing a beat a guy in the class says "well, isn't that how President Clinton was elected too?" Everyone laughed and immediately turned to look at the two girls who were, of course, fuming. Everyone then turned back to look at the guy who said it and he's staring right at the girls too, with this ridiculous grin on his face. He's about 40 years old, and just doesn't care what other people think. Anyways, his quote was great, but the fact that he said it solely to get a rise out of the girls made it a classic ECOT moment :)
And thus ends my random story and this blog...
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