Regaining human emotion

"Well I could write a song a thousand miles long."

It's 3:22 AM and I am finally regaining some range of human emotion for the day, or for yesterday I guess. I've slept already, passing out at 9 PM. 'Twas a fairly exhausting day of nothing really strenuous in particular, just trying to maintain some patience with so little of Engineering School left. I taught a class on how to react to enemy contact, I taught people how to service their Army radios, and I even helped make a "demolition kit". It just all felt like heavy lifting though, and I'm spent the moment I get home.

"You go backwards again"

Days like these are difficult to contemplate because I have functioned on such a limited range of human emotion and deep thinking. It's a simple existence. relative boredom, frustration, simple joys, sleep depravity. sleep cycle. do it over again. The internet and cell phone are my outreaches to a diverse Dan. Don't get me wrong, I have learned an incredible amount while being here, its just that I still long for the variety that a day in the college life could bring, where monotony had no home, where I could shift my energy from one passion to the next and drink anew and refreshed with vigor and excitement.

"For you I'd wait till kingdom come"

Why do people think Coldplay is "pussy" or "gay" music? I've never understood that. If I had any girls here to woo, I'd woo the shit out of them with these lyrics.

Got my Halloween costume and it is muy excellente. I will be Brick Tamland, Steve Carell's character from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Total cost of my costume: $3.00. I found an enitre pinstriped three piece suit at a salvation army, and Brick's glasses at a Goodwill store with Mike Werich when he visited this past weekend. The glasses hurt my eyes, it will be a glorious pain to endure through my entrance to our all Hallow's Eve fiesta!

Need to start focusing my training towards Ranger School once we get back in from the field. I'm ready to work my ass off, and I've luckily still got the time to do it. I'v slacked some here, and could have done better, but that is all water under the bridge. I want to pass Ranger, more so each day.

The Fall here is coming, and it has rejuvenated my soul. The midwest feels like so much more "home" than the east coast. The sudden shock of the cold is hard to replicate, and the crispness it brings is something I haven't felt since I left Batavia, Illinois my Freshman year of college. I have missed my Midwestern winter, and look forward to more of it when I'm home in December.

Caitlin is coming the 29th! little more than 2 weeks!

Then the midwest briefly from the 2nd of November to the 6th!

I'll be back in DC starting December 4th, and back in the midwest around the 18th of December. Looking forward to it so much that the three weeks of learning how to jump (and jumping) out of airplanes keeps slipping my mind. Ah, well. I'm sure the sheer boredom will remind me soon.

It's come time to close, but has felt nice to regain a little emotion and blog it to the world.

Good morrow to all

Dan