STRIPPER!

Now that I have your attention ... my roomate and I finally got around to stripping all the wax (and other sundry gunk) off of our floor. Yes you read that correctly, I was on my hands and knees scrubbing to CLEAN a floor. It looks damn good too if I say so myself.

On to the real news though. I finished ATT! Actually I finished last week on Monday, and started FC "A" school the following day. Regardless, I finished around 15 days ahead of schedule, no where near "soonest" but more than enough to get my PDA. Besides I wasn't going to open study every waking hour (read: ever) and I was also taking time to help out fellow classmates (which I enjoy, and really didn't take that much time). Some of my classmates gave me a little 'going away' present. Our instructor hands out these awards for various things (getting 100% on tests, being the most days ahead, having highest GPA, etc.); I had all but one. So before I 'comp-ed' (graduated) they made me a bunch of gag awards to hang around my station "'The Laugh' Award", the "Falk Award", the "Most Awards Award", the "Jewish Student Award", to name a few. I came back from a test to find them all over my station, even the instructor had a good laugh. Anyway, the game plan for "A" school is to take my time and max my scores since grades matter now. I'll see if I can get the 'Distinguished Military Graduate' award. I'm not class leader anymore, since I joined a class that was already formed, but I am Master-at-Arms ... which means I'm in charge of cleaning the room each day (note the 'in charge' bit which means I don't do any actual cleaning, I'm sneaky what can I say). Other than that the PT is more involved at "A" school, '3-mile' (feels like 2) runs and whatnot. It's very humid here so I invariably end up thoroughly disgusting and tired.

That's all for now, need to iron and shine my boots (do we notice a trend yet?).

J