Eggs Benedict Day/Patriots' Day/Birthday Of The Queen (Denmark)
2007-04-16 @ 10:21 p.m.

I think this specialist platoon is cursed. It rained again during the second half of their connectivity exercise! Like what the heck is going on here? I think this whole batch of courses is screwed up. Seriously. I feel like not bothering, but I can't because that'd be just behaving like the people in the store I despise. IPPT on Wednesday, which I'm going to fail unless I can avoid it by falling sick and getting an MC. Maybe if I wish hard enough for it it'll happen! That's what happened last year after the Christmas holiday, when I fell sick and basically got an even longer uninterrupted break. Hilarious stuff. My boss is back from Taiwan, still alive and being a bastard. He scolded us for going out in the pouring rain to rescue our equipment from certain ruin, even though we were carrying umbrellas. I mean, we just can't win, can we? We acted, and we got scolded. If we had done nothing and the equipment was soaked and damaged, we'd instead be blamed for not taking better care of it. Tell me how anyone is supposed to act in such a ridiculous situation! Just over seven months to go. You know what they say about this whole institution: Serve And F*** off. It's really true. I'm not saying that serving my bond is going to be a slice of heaven on earth, but at least any bureaucracy I encounter would have been in some sense of my own choosing. Plus the remuneration is certainly going to be way more attractive. I hate the military life...