I keep putting off going to sleep. I think the idea is that this is the last hour of the last day of my vacation, and tomorrow I have to get up to an alarm and go to work and resume the daily grind. As it happens, I like my job; the daily grind really isn’t terrible at all. Still, I like vacation better, and as I have some flexibility in my sleep schedule I am tempted to prolong it as long as possible.
Vacation turned out differently than I had expected it to. An early planned high point turned out to be a wet firecracker, which later exploded into a bit of drama. I am fairly certain that I managed to keep it from bothering anyone but the other person involved, at least. Aside from that, vacation was an great success. I spent some good time with good friends, skiied a few days with family both current and upcoming, and otherwise hung out and enjoyed several days associating with people dear to me.
There is a lot to do in 2009. The obvious bits are likely to eat up the first half: finishing flight school, moving out to my first duty station, progressing to RL1. The real challenge is what to do after that. I don’t want to sit around without improving myself just because I’m out of school, so that’s when I have to finally start taking classes toward a master’s in whatever spare time I can conjure. The Army will pay for them and the time is mine, and I’m not really worried about my own capability to excel. The challenge right now is to figure out what it is I want to do.
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