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I’ve probably rewritten this post like three times now… I never know what to say, or type. A topic would be helpful. I thought I asked you guys to send me topics.

you all fail.

I’ve started a Vlog. It’s on youtube. Check it out, tell me what you think, and give me ideas for the next one.

There’s this pier here in Plattsburgh I’ve become oddly obsessed with. I’ll have to show you all one day. I tend to go there during all of my free time… which I have a lot of considering my current schedule. It’s a really nice, pretty secret place where I can actually drive my Jeep right onto the beach and onto the pier and just relax, listen to some music, think, do some work etc… At night it’s a really great sight… the lights of Burlington across the lake, Valcour Island in the middle of the lake… all very great sights of night, all reflected on Lake Champlain, dancing with the moonlight, with me and my music as the audience.

Today was a pretty long day. I woke up around 6:15, got my uniform, boots and ruck sack on and met with two of the other guys at the ROTC office, where we loaded up with a 50 pound bag on our backs and started marching around in the woods for about an hour. After that I waited around for a bit, changed and grabbed some breakfast. After breakfast I went down to the pier to relax and think, then got back to the dorm and BSed for a bit.

I had my first class at 1:30 where I practically passed out from a lack of energy/sleep… I pretty much did fall asleep during the lecture actually… the professor has a lot to tell but never interacts with the class, and that kind of gets… everyone.

After class I got ready, put my running shorts/shoes on, grabbed an energy bar from the vending maching, my 32oz bottle and made my way to Cumberland Head. Cumberland Head is this part of Plattsburgh that pretty much sticks right out into Lake Champlain… kind of like a peninsula. On the East edge of it is where a ferry goes 24 hours a day to just north of Burlington, Vermont. Around the actual peninsula is a road which goes along the circumference of it, which is about 10km, or 6ish miles. The views along it are absolutely awesome around 1500 because the sun is out and beautiful, usually at a good level where it’s not in your eyes but still part of the picture if yaknow what I mean.

I’ve been looking at Army Air Assault School for the Summer, and the last event which you must do to pass the school is a 20km Ruck Sack march in under 3 hours. Not knowing what even 10km feels like (I average about 4-5 miles on my runs  during PT or during my own runs), I felt it was necessary to figure it out. I started out, and finished with a pretty consistent pace. The pace was usually a nice jog, something I might be capable of doing with 35 pounds extra on my back with a little practice.

After the 10K run, I got back to my dorm and changed back into my ACU’s for Military Studies. During the class, I got my Class A’s which are the Army Greens uniform, for the Alumni event coming up in October. Then Lieutenant Colonel told us (two other Cadets and myself) to get into the van… we were doing Land Navigation.

For anyone who doesn’t know what land navigation is, it generally consists of getting a map, some coordinates, a pencil, a protractor and a compas. Then, you need to plot the points with with your protractor, calculate the Azimuth, convert it to magnetic, figure out how many meters the distance is, and go find it. Now I’m not talking premade trails and stuff, I’m talking the woods of upstate New York, consisting of hills, draws, marshes, swamps and corn fields. Yes, corn fields.

The three of us start plotting the point where LTC (Lieutenant Colonel) told us to find, get our heading and start out. The four of us move out into the woods, getting farther and farther away from the van. After some confusion, discussion and recalculating, we make it to the North Way. The North Way (87 North), is a good distance from Campus mind you. The coordinate we were looking for (it was actually a hill) should’ve been close, but it was almost sunset and we had to start moving back. As we start getting back, LTC leads the way and we get into this large depression of a field. The field is actually a marsh of somesort, covered in long stalks, like corn fields. We go through it. Heading towards the field house, where the van is, becomes something you’d see in Indiana Jones or something. LTC is leading the way, breaking down the stalks which are almost twice the height of him, making a path behind him as me and the two fellow Cadets follow. It was actually pretty awesome considering the only path was the one in front of us. Look left, you couldn’t see anything, right nothing, behind, the stalks raised right back up after we got past them.

We make it back, get back to the ROTC office, I get some food, change and go to shoot a show for PSTV (it’s 2100 at this point, I’ve been going since 0600). I get in there, they say they’re making a music video for the intro, I’m no help, I leave. And now, here I am.

I’ve written a lot and I’m really, super tired. I need to get up at 0615 tomorrow again…so I’m going to get to it, get to sleep and get to PT. Have a goodnight and hope all is well w/ everyone.

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So straight up, this blog is meant to be an attempt at a piece of writing that would be read like you were talking to me… hopefully somehow this would be moderately entertaining to read, and to even write at that… writing’s usually fun for some, right? Maybe it’ll be for me… maybe.

Today was the last day of my summer class (in case no one knew, I’ve been taking public speaking over @ Suffolk for the past four weeks at an attempt to get credits out of the way) and I think I did pretty well, hoping for an A minus, that would be pretty sweet… especially considering I need the grades, too.

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See? that entire sentence was very LJ-esque.
Fail.
No, actually, I know you don’t care. I barley care. The only significant thing that sentence carries is the fact that I finished, which to me means I can finally start making money.

money… Seriously, it’s the point when you buy lunch every day at work, and then go to put gas in your car at the end of the week when you realize you’re making shit (in regards to pay, not the actual stuff [while that happened's, too])

That wasn’t even funny. SEE? That was borderline gross… and obvious… and gross.

We’ll work on this.