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... Read More
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.
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?
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)... Read More
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
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... Read More
So I've discovered this cool snackfood from Israel... Individual peanuts inside a baked sesame flour coating. Mentioning this is in *no* way meant to incite a 5-page debate about the current Palestinian insanity, okay? I'm just mentioning a tasty snack. I'd be happy to send some $1.00 bags to my friends...
Otherwise, it's just been more of the same. I'm in the middle of aircrew... Read More
Okay, I've been waking up for the past week with a different 60's or 70's sitcom theme stuck in my head. "Green Acres," "The Addams Family." "One Day at a Time..." Could it my life passing before me -in audio- as I die a slow-motion death? And all it's amounted to is TV?
Things are slow here, which is exactly the goal. In any case,... Read More
I had that MBD last week but I didn't feel like I lost any real weight, just water. Pissing out of my ass 12 times in 24 hours- I'm sure glad my toilet paper has aloe vera on it.
I've identified a dreaded new enteric malady here at MFO North Camp: Mad Bowel Disease!!!
Early signs of infection are crampy lower abdominal pain, nausea but no vomiting, and myalgias/arthralgias. Ultimately one suffers multiple, malodorous, copious fluid bowel movements.
Ick.
I spent all night and day with it. I feel 10lbs lighter.