Not a Whole Lot

PT this morning was different, but fun. The POC’s all had to take their PFD, so the IMT’s and PFT’s were on their own. We were on the indoor track in Reynolds where it was hot, muggy, and short. By short I mean the track is much shorter than normal. Usually indoor tracks are one half the size of a normal track, in other words, there are usually eight laps to a mile on an indoor track. NCSU was trying to be different however because they made it 6 and one half laps to a mile. So, when we did our pacing run where you are supposed to complete at least a mile and a half, we had to run at least nine and three quarters laps. Talk about confusing! “So, what lap are you on?” “Well, I just completed lap four and a quarter, how about you?” Do you see what I mean? This is the most odd setup that I have ever seen or heard of for an indoor track. I took a Sociology test today, it really wasn’t that bad. It was on the presentation slides that the teacher downloads off the books web site, so as long as you had read the book or reviewed the downloadable slide show, you were golden. Yesterday I got back my Econ test. I wasn’t terribly thrilled with the grade, but a 21 out of 25 really isn’t that bad. And you can’t say that is an 84% either because our grade comes from the total points you get on all work over the total points you could have gotten. When you look at it that way, only missing four is actually pretty good. For some reason, today is a very muggy day. When I walked back to my room from PT this morning, the fog was so thick it was really hard to see very far. And I found a new pet peeve of mine. If you are walking on a really foggy or muggy day…put out your cigarette. Normally smoke will dissipate fairly rapidly. I do not by any means enjoy walking behind you smokers, so take note. But on a day like today, the smoke just sits there in a big cloud and stinks for all the people who will walk by in the next five minutes. If you really want to kill yourself that way, be my guest, but please don’t try to do the same for me. No matter what you say, you are not cool and smoking does not help that any. A big group of people are going to gather in Witherspoon tonight to watch the presidential debates, so that is probably my plan for this evening. I have to be in bed by eleven though, so no late night tonight. I signed up for Shadow Day last week. If you don’t know what that is, it is when qualified high school students get to hang out with a college kid for two days. They sleep in your room and eat with you and go to all your classes. I thought that would be a fun thing to do, and there are a lot of kids who want to do it this year, so I figured it was the least I could do.

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LLab

Had LLab today as my fifth class of the day. It actually wasn’t too bad because we did a drill set, and I was the only one in the group who didn’t do a right face when Boler told us to. Many people would think that me not doing something that the flight commander told the flight to would be bad. This is not so. You see, Alexander had fallen us in and then Boler called a right face. Because Boler had not called, “At my command”, we were not supposed to move. That made Alexander look at my name tag and write my name down. Score one for paying attention!! Alexander is the leader of Honor Guard, so it is good that he thought I did well. I have to go to bed, it is getting late for me. I will put up a extra long post tomorrow to make up for it. Sorry.

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