Sunglasses Day
2006-06-27 @ 9:55 p.m.

Witness the wonderful efficiency of our military organisation. We're told to send our dirty linen for washing in the morning and to collect fresh sheets at night. So someone had to screw up along the way and forget to indent them for us. Now we're forced to drape blankets over mattresses that even I at my most slovenly would find repulsive. I know you can't expect too much as a soldier, but hasn't it occurred to anyone that people are less likely to fall sick and disrupt training if their living conditions were decent? I know NS is a lot better these days, but lest you forget, so are the general living conditions that we're accustomed to in the real world! Anyway, The Outsider is overrated if you ask me. I think The Plague, which I borrowed from Wilson after finishing the former, is much better. Novels shouldn't be asked to bear the full weight of philosophy, existentialist or otherwise.