First of many

Ok, so after countless minutes of thought while reading Scott and Jen's blog I've decided to undertake the tasking of creating my own blog so people that I don't talk to all that often or even at all can keep up with what's going on in my very busy life. Ok, so I'm not actually busy...in fact, I'd say that I would fall into the category of the exact opposite of "busy".

So what's new with me? Let's see, I'm still in the Air Force and in North Carolina and would love nothing more than to get stationed just about anywhere else. My first enlistment actually ended today, but back in December I re-enlisted for another four years so I'm stuck until 2012, which wouldn't bother me if I liked my job. I'm in the Materiel Management career field (that's the fancy name the Air Force has given to Supply to make people feel better about themselves...didn't work on me) and so as the name would suggest I manage materiel. Specifically I go to work and play operator for people wanting to call a family member/friend from oversea. Every now and then I actually have to do my job (which is place an order for a part for the aircraft maintainers) but I've only done that maybe 6 times in the past 3.5 months...so mostly I just read, watch movies, or play bubbles (a stupid game on the computer that actually works on a government computer.)

So yeah, I hate my job. But there is one nice thing about my work schedule, and that's the fact that I work from 23:30 (that would be 11:30 pm) to 07:30 Monday through Friday (which actually is Sunday night to Friday morning). Now, I know that working at night is not exactly the best thing if you're wanting to have a social life, but I'm not to worried about that right now. My main focus is getting my college done, and working at night when nothing happens offers me tons of time to do school. So this August I'm starting school again. 10 years after graduating high school I've finally figured out what I want to do with my life, and it's all because I went to Iraq last summer and realized that I needed a better job. Because as much fun as being a manager of materiel is, this is basically what you do with your time...

So yeah, I need a new job. So while I was making such wonderful use of my time in the sun and dirt my buddy that's stationed out in Okinawa mentioned to me that the Air Force has a killer program that will take an uneducated turd like myself and turn me into a Physician's Assistant in two years. I liked that idea of becoming an officer, getting out of Supply, and getting into the medical field so when I got back I started to take care of things so I could apply to that program. That included taking a Biology, 2 Chemistry, and 2 Anatomy & Physiology classes. While I was taking my Biology class the thought occurred to me, "PAs do all the dirty grunt work that real doctors don't want to do...like make people 'turn their head and cough'" and I'm just not down with that. So PA was out of the question but I finally knew that I wanted into the medical field. Well, after some more conversations with my buddy and some research of my own I found that the Air Force offers two methods for me to go to medical school on their dime, I just need a Bachelors degree. So, as I mentioned, I'll be heading back to school this August to undertake the HUGE task of college so I can get a degree and do more college. But in the end I'm going to be an actual doctor...and I've decided that I'm going to specialize in Cardiology (partly because of Breanne.)

And that's about it for my life right now...well, at least what I'm going to share at this time. It's already 4pm and I'm tired so I'm out!