ammogirl

I went to bed….earlier than I would like to say last night, it being Friday night and all.  Ahhh the fabulous life I lead!  In the past 4 weeks, I have been to the following places: Work, Chow Hall, School, and Dorm.  Oh, wait, and Gym.  But not last week, because last week we were getting ready for a big inspection, and apparently taking 45 minutes in the morning for the gym 3 times a week is too much to ask, before said big inspection.  Even if I regularly work through lunch, as in EVERY DAY I eat my lunch at my desk while working: Still!Too!Much!To!Ask!  However, this inspection is occuring this coming week, and after that, life will be glorious.  Today was "supposedly" the "last" Saturday we work - (right) and it will be welcomed, the being able to wake up of my own accord for once.  Currently, it is six days of extremely early (4:30 am) alarm wakeage, and one day of semi early (7:45..ish) alarm wakeage.  And of course, you all know the reason for the one day of semi early alarm wakeage, that being my piles and mountains of homework I either have to do on Sunday, or fail my classes. 

But: today.  Today, as it is the last duty day before the big inspectors come, was cleaning day.  We started out walking through assigned areas of the bomb dump, picking up trash, and ended the day cleaning our office, the Captain’s conference room, and both bathrooms.  We did a fine job, if I do say so myself, and indeed, the Captain and Chief came in several times to thank us for the extremely fabulous job we had done on all our assigned areas….Are you guys actually READING THIS?  A paragraph about me CLEANING the bathroom?  I’m falling asleep typing it, for god’s sake!

Anyway, after we were done cleaning, but before we were released by people with more stripes on their sleeve than me, I did two things that I OUGHT to feel ashamed of, but absolutely don’t: #1 - My boss called, SEVERAL THOUSAND times, to have me check on documents, which is certainly something anybody else in the office could have done, but I must possess some otherworldly document checking abilities, because EVERY SINGLE TIME it was: Ring Ring. (answer)(hold on)"Sgt Williams, it’s for you." "Sgt Williams, may I help you?" "ohhh heyyy, Treena!  I have this document I need you to check.." And: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  I wanted to scream as loud as I could, but screaming as loud as you can inside of the office you are in charge of is something the military frowns upon.  For some reason.  But! My point!  When the phone rang, YET AGAIN, after the 48,372 phone calls that proceeded in exactly the way I have already described, I said: "I am not here.  I am IN THE BATHROOM."  and, because the people in my office are the best people in the world, that is exactly where my boss thought I was.  I was very glad to have that (small) break from the phone.  Indeed, the NEXT time it rang, I even answered it myself, which brings us to thing I OUGHT to feel ashamed of but absolutely don’t #2 - My Big Boss, who is a good guy, but got a little, ahhh…stressed, about this inspection, kept asking me something about checking a document that "should be in Bri’s inbox, right on top".  And he said it at least 40 times.  I couldn’t even find a SMALL chance to interrupt and say "OKAY, hold on", and I am a MASTER INTERRUPTER.  So!  I just put him on hold.  Yep.  I didn’t even say, "I am putting you on hold" just, pushed the button, put down the phone.  I found the document, but it took me at least two minutes, because it was certainly NOT in Bri’s inbox, right on top.  When I got back to my desk, and picked the phone back up, and took my boss off hold, this is what I heard: "…ld be in Bri’s inbox, right on top".  That whole time, I guess he thought I was just sitting there not listening, and so kept repeating himself, probably hoping eventually I would either get it, or die, or…something.  I finally said, "I um…have it. And, you have been on hold this whole time."  So.  I OUGHT to feel ashamed, but you can certainly understand why I absolutely don’t, right? 

Anyhow, the inspection is next week, and the final exam in my business management class is May 4, so very soon I predict a sharp decrease in my stress factor.  Also, I have an exciting number to share with you: 77.  This is how many days I have until my midtour.  THAT definitely causes my stress factor to decline dramatically.  Also, I currently have less than six months to go on my tour here in Korea, and that means less than six months until Italy, and that is super fabulous, for realz.

CIAO!