Thursday Aug 22, 2002

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Someone cheered me up!
(Meet me by the belt sanders, we'll sneak off and hide behind the sheetrock!)
whiskey_____:
where are you?
inkedgirl:
You're in trouble, kiddo. I'm going to my hometown this weekend. Hick town, USA. biggrin You're going to get some funny stuff in the mail. ;-)

Thursday Aug 22, 2002

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Eh Gad, another epic headache!!! Am I doomed to death by brain tumor? I know better than to believe the romantic TV portrayal of death by cancer. I watched it kill my mother.

Cranky cranky cranky today. Someone cheer me up, please?
grendel:
Some actual G.W. Bush quotes for you:

"We need to stop the exquisite sex and wholesome violence that underscore our children"--NPR Public Radio

"I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home."Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)

"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. "On the Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

I think you're going to have to lay off the night vision goggles. MEMORIZE the route to the doggie door.

Wednesday Aug 21, 2002

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So I got up at 5am to go running.... now I'm thinking I'll just go back to bed.

-Doug the Slug

Wednesday Aug 21, 2002

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The telephone guys finally cleared my phone line of all the static and squeals and whistles, and did it in a day! I swear I'm going cable when I get where I'm going. But that's an entirely other metaphysical bucket of worms. For now, my damn dialup holds solid at 31.2kbs (yeah, go ahead and laugh...)

Has anyone been watching CNN's presentation of the Al...
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grendel:
"Pop pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is." Not to have the popping or the fizzing anymore. Or something.

So, are we talking John Hughes circa The Breakfast Club, or circa Home Alone 3 and Beethoven's 3rd? Both absolutely charming little movies I might add. . .

*RETCH*

smile
slightpressureok:
Like Ally Sheedy/Emilio Estevez John Hughes-y.

Monday Aug 19, 2002

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I rode around in one of our medevac helicopters for about 3 hours tonight, all with night vision goggles on. I have the headache of Phineas Gauge, though I promise I'll be better-behaved.

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1540/lobotomy.html

Okay, bedtime!


p.s. My skull-splitting NVGs mount on my way cool flight helmet, now I just have to make a drug deal to get the Velcro counterweight that hangs on the...
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girlblue:
P. S. "Chicken licker!!!!!!!!!!" biggrin
whiskey_____:
don't make fun!

Friday Aug 16, 2002

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In just 2 weeks I'll be headed home for a 21-day visit!!!
whiskey_____:
note to self: work on spelling and grammar
grendel:
There's a chance I could be in the east coast type area around that time. Let me know what the dilly-o is.

Friday Aug 09, 2002

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An anniversary of sorts: I've been here for 2 months today. That also means I haven't driven a car in just as long. There are a few vehicles here, but getting around the base is mostly by bicycle.

Hey! I'll be back in the good ol' US of A from 2-21 September. Flying in and out of Dulles, spending a few days in DC/Baltimore, a...
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noncomdrone:
Sometimes I dream that I'm an utterly charming and perfect woman who meets a histologist who thinks I feel the same way about him but I'm really just acting polite because I have no idea what histology is. Later, in my embarassment and confusion I turn back into a Jarhead (thanks a lot, Doc) and pretend I'm a shrub until he goes away.
Really Sir, a jarhead? Well, I never....:p

Have fun when you're back, by that time I will be on the wrong side of the pond. Let's hear it for Kosovo, hip-hip-horaaaaawwwww fuckit.
go_lately:
how're the hedgies doing?

i keep having dreams about the wtc's frown

Wednesday Aug 07, 2002

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Okay... they're actually making me *work* now. I've been up since 2:30am for a medical evacuation and I just got home at 7:30pm.

You taxpayers take heart -you got your $$$ out of me today.
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grendel:
Medical evacuation? Why are they evacuating? Is that top secret? The world is going to end, isn't it? You're just catching the first wave of ebola victims out of Kuwait or something, aren't you? Well shit, now we're all screwed. Just don't play with any stray monkeys, ok?
whiskey_____:
you should come back to the states now. I need a check up anyway ; )

Monday Aug 05, 2002

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Aaack. Just some of that familiar malaise.
girlblue:
Ditto. I happened to write my journal entry at the same time. How funny. What the hell is wrong with us? I'm too lazy to even pick my own nose.

Friday Aug 02, 2002

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On the other end of the spectrum from Tel Aviv are the local Bedouins who live in the desert surrounding the North Camp. They live in low, open-roofed huts made of parched boughs, raise goats and sheep and spend the day retrieving water from government-supplied cisterns. They carry the water in gallon jugs to individually water the hundreds of small peach (or a similar fruit)...
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roach1161:
and i can understand preffering Ft. lewis over egypt.... i've never been to egypt, but i'm one of those people who walks ouside during the day and goes"aarrrgghh!! the sun!"i don't think i couyld survive in egypt
inkedgirl:
I bet it is.

Thursday Aug 01, 2002

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I saw some of Israel yesterday and today. I was swooning at the sight of the IDF's fairer members, shopping in a mall with Galils, M-4s and M-16s slung across their backs, wearing fatigues. What is it about a capable woman that's so alluring?

Though hard to imagine, the Palestinians have reached a new level of indiscrimminate slaughter: 5 American students whose only mistake was...
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inkedgirl:
It's so scary to me to watch the news and know you're so close to that!! It seems like they report a new suicide bombing in Israel every day.
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