Well I finally got a real day off after almost three weeks of working 24 hours on duty, 10 hours off, repeat... and I spent the first fourteen hours of it sleeping of course. Full length feature film dreams, they were all jumbled together, but I do remember that Ghost Dog made a cameo in one. Actually he and I were having a long discussion...
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girlblue:
Clorox makes a nasty bourbon mixer. I wouldn't recommend it.
Well it's been a few weeks since I have been able to get to the site. Lotsa catching up to do! I've been working like mad. After getting back from Puerto Rico we were informed that our next day off would be three weeks later. I just have a brief respite tonight so am stopping by. Been doing lotsa work. Even some top super secret...
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girlblue:
Go to Seattle!!!!!!! Go to Seattle!!!!!!!
claudia:
that desktop was beautiful. thank you
I haven't slept more than a few hours in the last 4 days and now that I have a little bit of time to sleep, I cannot. I don't know where this insomnia comes from. It's what keeps me up late with a bowl of ice cream and writing stories and working on photos at home and that is good. It is also what robs...
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girlblue:
Sweet Puerto Rico dreams! What's that in your hand by the way?
At a certain point, exhaustion and annoyance with the bullshit you have to put up with in this job fall away and you realize that you are standing on an eight story tall tower over the pounding waves under a near full moon. The spray is drifting by in ghost shapes. And it just don't matter. I think I have had 6 hours of sleep...
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voltaire:
thanks. I wasn't sure whether anyone would see that post or not.(on Ceilia's) Part of me hoped not.Infact, most of me hoped not. But thanks.
jessica:
Hey. Your comments crack me up and I love your views. I'm going to have Vishnoup now.
I haven't slept in almost two days and we are going back out for another patrol tonight. Wish me luck so I don't shoot myself in the foot! :-) Actually hiking through the hills at night is pretty, so long as the breezes keep the biting gnats away. It looks like I might get to take a couple days off in Puerto Rico sometime later...
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girlblue:
Love the new profile pic! That's absolutely fabulous! Get some sleep sometime soon, ok?
Spent all day and early night yesterday doing a patrol in the jungle hills around the outskirts of the base. It was a fun hike...minus the swarms of biting gnats and steep hills and cactus. :-) But today I am wasted tired...just doing my best to keep somewhat alert.
Well I am going back on post so I guess all y'all have fun. I'll be back in a day or so depending on how things go. I had a good day off. Caught up on the laziest sleep I could manage...the kind where you roll over, look at the clock, and roll back. I bought From Hell and Muholland Dr. on DVD and I...
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volkov:
This is the wierdest thing. I cancelled this account a really very long time ago. I don't know how this page is even still here....oddness supreme is my old former self floating in limbo.
sooo uh.... HI ME! write me back sometime or am I shy?
I know I am so I don't spose to hear from you anytime soon.
sooo uh.... HI ME! write me back sometime or am I shy?
I know I am so I don't spose to hear from you anytime soon.
miss_piss:
uh yeah...
This week has been pretty good. I am driving rather than standing up in a tower for hours on end. Especially with the storms that have been sweeping across this place. Guantanamo Bay really looks like a tropical island now, though. The land crabs come out by the hundreds at night. I am convinced that they are really space aliens bent on domination of the...
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volkov:
Well, lessee...I am down here with the Marine Corps Security Forces which means my job is pretty much limited to the outer perimeter of the base. The only time I am ever at all close to the detainees is when they bring them in. I can't spill all the beans about my work down here, but our schedule is pretty hellacious...we work about 24 hours and then get about an 8 hour break to rest and do laundry and whatnot. We do that for about 8-12 days at a time and then we get a couple days off to relax before we start up again.Mainly I stand in a really tall tower right on the fence and watch the Cubists. As far as how the detainees are treated, they are'nt in the little shack cells with the fence walls anymore now that the permanant facility is up. They have thier own food service people to make meals according to thier religion and thier own chaplin. From our tower we watched over the old camp and they were treated like prisoners at any other prison I imagine. They have trained military police handling them...not infantry types like myself...guess they just don't trust us Marines to do that. :-) I wouldn't. From what I gather most of the people that are here are hardly the folk that were running the show. Most of them will probably be sent back at some point. But I wouldn't know about most of that.
eris:
thanks for answering that. what about the people of cuba? do you have any contact with them? are they hostile that american soldiers are there? just curious....
Well I am now back! I've been gone from the site since February when I was snatched up by the Marine Corps to respond to the Great Unpleasantness (tm).
The place's tech has changed but the feel seems the same...gonna find out...time to wander aimlessly bout the halls of SG!
The place's tech has changed but the feel seems the same...gonna find out...time to wander aimlessly bout the halls of SG!
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shade1:
missed ya, man.
yeah, things have changed but it's kinda like moving into a new house with the same old family. how's the corp treating you?
yeah, things have changed but it's kinda like moving into a new house with the same old family. how's the corp treating you?
shade1:
missed ya, man.
yeah, things have changed but it's kinda like moving into a new house with the same old family. how's the corp treating you?
yeah, things have changed but it's kinda like moving into a new house with the same old family. how's the corp treating you?