No Drag (Late-Publish)

Yesterday was a long day, just as today is bound to be.

Wednesday afternoon, my NCO and I had a surprise inspection of our clinic sprung on us as we were closing up shop. I left work more than an hour late, and we still have plenty to square away today for the 'big' inspection on Monday.

Yesterday, I came to the clinic at 0415 and got back to my barracks at 2100. We drove up to our Northern half's clinic, and I met our incoming 1sg, as well as our incoming commander. I like them both, to be honest, and that surprised me in itself. We have others expected to come in over the next month. I really like both of these folks so far, and look forward to getting to work with them in their clinic, hopefully, in the near(ish) future.

I didn't get to talk to Ryan much yesterday, which was dissappointing, but, as always, he made me smile monumentally when I did get to talk to him. I'm sure the glow will fade a bit eventually, but I have a hard time imagining it doing so just now. I'm just enjoying what I have while I can. I was congratulated in front of my entire company yesterday on getting engaged. Marriage, in the Army's eyes, is more or less equivelant to a coming of age, so long as it's not the juicy-girl brand of marriage. It amuses me the number of times I've seen that attitude, but, none the less, I'm happy in my choice, and want nothing more.

My new 1sg is already calling me Specialist, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am. CPL won't happen, it turns out, because we aren't slotted the right way for that in this company. That's okay, I'll just get my sergeant and get it out of the way. :-)

Life is good, and I'm doing much better keeping my emotions in check. I've been taking calcium, vitamin c and glucosamine chondroitin (sp?) every morning on top of my usual anti-depressant, and I think it's helping the physical aspects of this all enough to make a difference.