Just let this week end already!!!
Posted by Gypsy on Mar 29, 2006
Jesus fuck, yet another fucked up day in my fucked up week. I didn’t go to PT today because the other three guys in my unit weren’t going. We have an all for one, one for all policy so that none of us are stuck there alone. So I get in to work at 8 and get started with all the shit I have to do today. Because that one soldier decided to freak out yesterday, I have to pick up his stories and get those done before noon tomorrow. Lots to do and I know I’m going to miss deadline.
At 9, my one buddy gets in, tells me they ended up going to PT after-all and I need to be in the first sergeant’s office at 5 tonight. My fucking out time is 4:30, so already my day is starting out fucked up. Then my editor gets in and starts harassing me about my stories. The same fucking stories she gave me at the end of the day yesterday that she wants done fucking NOW, even though I haven’t had the chance to even call anyone.
So I spend all day trying to set up interview, interviewing people and dealing with that. Luckily I found 30 minutes to hit the gym, otherwise I’d be a total fucking mess by now.
So I go to my ass-chewing and get chewed out and then told I have to come back tomorrow to get my counseling statement (aka written reprimand). Of course, he wants me to be there at 5 again. What’s worse is I was planning on leaving work at 1:30 tomorrow because I have an interview off post (45 minutes away). So now I can either waste all that gas driving off post and then coming back or reschedule my interview, putting me even further off deadline. Fucking wonderful.
I finally get home fucking 6 to a note on my fucking door telling me as of June my rent is going up. So any hope I may have had of keeping my apartment is totally shot because on my salary, getting only $871 for housing expenses, I can’t fucking afford this place. I probably can’t even afford a one bedroom in this complex since that probably went up to.
On top of that, as if all this wasn’t enough, I also get a phone call from the sergeant first class in my office telling me that a story that I assigned to one of my soldiers is now being given back to me and I have an interview already set for tomorrow morning. I don’t have time for this story, which would be why I assigned it to my other soldier. It was a story I wasn’t even originally assigned. I DON’T HAVE FUCKING TIME FOR THIS SHIT!!!!! I already have a packed schedule tomorrow and a deadlinen to meet, which I’m not going to meet, which means another fucking counseling statement for not meeting deadlines, even though it’s not my fault. Meanwhile, my soldier will be sitting around with her thumb up her ass because she’s done with everything she was assigned. What’s wrong with this fucking picture. I’m ready for the damn weekend.
I had a bad day
Posted by Gypsy on Mar 28, 2006
I don’t even know where to begin. It felt like it was never going to end and every time I turned around there was something else I had to deal with.
My day began like any other. I got up, got ready for work, chilled a little. It seemed like it was going to be a pretty decent day.
Well that disappeared within 10 minutes of getting to the office. I barely have a chance to log into my computer when the phone rings. Turns out one of my soldiers felt the need to attempt suicide this morning after PT. So I rush to the hospital to find out what the fuck is going on only to be greeted by my first sergeant who wants details I don’t have. I alert the other NCOs I work with, one of them calls my boss, we are all there at the hospital, only to be told to go back to work, there’s nothing we can do at the moment and they’ll call us when we can see him.
I’m not back at work more than 15 minutes when they call wanting someone to go sit with the kid. Since I”m the only one back at the office, I get to go. Now, this soldier is brand fucking new. He’s been here a week, I don’t even know the guy. Fuck, I had just found out this morning that he’d confessed yesterday to having a drinking problem, which started after he got over his drug problem. So now I have to sit with the guy, in a hospital room. I didn’t know what to say to him, so we just sat there in silence while the medical people did their thing, checking his vitals and such. Oh, and one insensitive bastard decided to hit on me while we was at it. Fucking wonderful.
After a couple hours of pure boredom, me nauseous the whole time because all I can smell is antiseptic and vomit, I finally get another NCO to sit with him so I can go back to work. He finally got released this afternoon, but is on suicide watch for the night. Both my coworkers had to pull duty watching him. I couldn’t because I’m a female and it’s a safety issue to leave me alone in a barracks room watching over a suicidal male soldier. That and the fact that while on suicide watch, the babysitter has to watch the suicidal soldier at all times. And by all times, I mean even when the soldier is taking care of business. So the watcher has to be the same gender as the suicidal soldier.
I don’t what’s going to happen to this soldier. I hope he gets the help he needs. He’s a good kid. Just having some problems.
Fuck Afghanistan
Posted by Gypsy on Mar 27, 2006
Yeah, I said fuck it. BECAUSE I’M NOT GOING!!!!! :D
I found out today that my tasker has been cancelled. So I’m safe for at least a little longer.
Unfortunately, this brings a bevy of other issues. Mainly that I’d had the next two years completely mapped out and now things have changed. I have no clue what’s going to happen, but I’ll more than likely be gone from Fort Irwin within the next year, off to another post so I can deploy somewhere. In the meantime, it’s time to go apartment hunting since I’ll be here at least a few more months and Jeremy wants to keep this place. And furniture shopping.
So, time to follow Kelvin’s plan of selling stuff, because that’s the only way I’ll be able to afford a new place and the ‘Thon. Unless I suddenly become rich. Which I doubt will happen.
Inside source
Posted by Gypsy on Mar 21, 2006
Just got a tip from an inside source that currently there are no orders in the system for me to deploy. Doesn’t mean they won’t magically appear at some point, but they aren’t there yet (and from what I gather should be since the guy who is supposed to leave when I do has orders in the system). Not counting my chickens before they hatch, but that’s the rumor at the moment.
