May 2012
157 posts
Screwed Over
I love being in the military, It’s been my dream.
But for the second summer in a row, they have messed up my summer cruise orders. Last year, they changed my orders 3 times. I went from going to Bangor, WA for a sub cruise, to a cruise in the Med, to one in Florida then ended up in Norfolk. Where I live…
I didn’t even get my orders till midnight the night before. The whole things sucked so hard.
This time around, I’m in Oceana which isn’t much farther away but I’ve resigned myself to it. At least I’ll be with a squadron and right next to the beach.
But I haven’t gotten my orders yet. Because, apparently, they were fucked up and had to be sent back. Which has the potential of meaning I may not even be with my squadron. They may screw me over again and send me to a ship in Norfolk.
I know that’s more of a worse case scenario, but the fact is that it could happen.
Which is bullshit because according to everyone else I’m the only one this seems to keep happening to.
Honestly, if this is representative of how my luck will go in the real navy, I’ll probably go SWO and just leave as soon as my 4 years are up.
Because it’s not worth it. I’m a flexible person and i know the navy is always liable to throw you for a loop. But I cannot handle having my plans change ALL THE TIME. It’s not how I work. Every once in a while is fine. But considering I’ve been screwed over in some way every summer since getting into ROTC, I don’t think I have a good track record going.
It’s just bullshit.
“Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.”
—Anonymous (via goldenstories)
“Gotta have roots before branches,
To know who I am
Before I know who I wanna be.
And faith to take chances,
To live like I see
A place in this world
For me.” —Roots Before Branches by Room For Two
To know who I am
Before I know who I wanna be.
And faith to take chances,
To live like I see
A place in this world
For me.” —Roots Before Branches by Room For Two
Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average. →
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Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings - JRR TolkienJane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of NiceaWuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip PullmanGreat Expectations - Charles DickensLittle Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh - AA MilneAnimal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella GibbonsSense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz ZafonA Tale Of Two Cities - Charles DickensBrave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice SeboldCount of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman RushdieMoby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances HodgsonBurnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS ByattA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid BlytonHeart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksWatership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil ShuteThe Three Musketeers - Alexandre DumasHamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor HugoFrankenstein - Mary Shelley
I added Frankenstein because if this is supposed to consist predominantly of classics then that one certainly deserves to be there.
29 in total though!
A Little Thing
It’s awesome watching a thunderstorm roll in. The rumbling thunder in the distance growing steadily louder as the skies darken…to hear the first droplets of rain increase into a steady downpour within seconds, the wind bringing it ever faster. The heat of the air diminishing with the strength of the sun…To listen to the world grow quiet in its wake, in silent anticipation…
I came out to tan but I’m glad the storm has come. What an incredible world we live in…
