[Jan6 @ 10p] bumpercar_blues Yesterday I headed over to the Holiday Inn to check-in to the hotel room I would be staying in for the night before MEPS. There's a 0430 wake-up call since we have to be at MEPS by 0545. Dinner and breakfast were provided by the restaurant attached to the hotel. My dinner was undesirable as my pasta was soaking in an inch deep of oil. The apple crumble kind of made up for it. During my desert a guy going through MEPS tomorrow was put with me. We come to find out that we have the same goal to become Naval Officers and, even more coincidental, have the same OR. We hung out for the rest of the night. Since I'm going for Naval Officer my hotel room was a double bed and all for me! Enlistments have to share a room while officers do not! That morning I set my alarm for 0415 so the wake-up call wouldn't scare the shit out of me and so I could do some sit-ups and push-ups. I caved and had some coffee. There was a keurig(sp?) in my room, I couldn't not use it! I was out of my room by 0446, a minute late... or so I thought. I was the first one on the floor so of course I didn't know where to go or even if I was *gasp* late! Breakfast was had and more waiting to go onto the school bus that would transfer us to MEPS. What an experience that was! MEPS, that is. It is a lot of hurry up & wait but I never did feel too rushed. My blood pressure wasn't what I was hoping it would be. It's risen since I was last tested. From a 105/77 with a pulse of 58 to a 115/78 with a pulse of 77! How disappointing. At least my weight isn't as crazy as I thought, only 111.2lbs. Oo and this document says my body mass index is a 19.86kg/m2. Everything but a complication with when I hurt my back in November (which I obtained records of right after being dropped off at the hotel) and my expunged arrest record for drugs was fine. The CMO (Chief Medical Officer) gave me a bit of hope when he said that he's seen much worse obtain a waiver that would override the instant disqualification of past drug use policy and he was confident that I had more than a 50/50 chance in succeeding. The downer of all this is that he said it could take up to days, months or, I think he even said, years. Ack! I can't be on the fence of uncertainty for years! I e-mailed my OR letting her know what I've obtained and what I hope to obtain. She's sick currently so I'm not expecting a response for a little bit. I just wish I could have some direction, in the meantime, of how to prove that I'm worthy of this waiver. I'll do anything to attain it! I want this commission so, so much! Anyway... I need to get some sleep! My hotel room :) overdose

[Jan5 @ 12p] bumpercar_blues Tonight I shall be in a hotel room on Niagara Falls Blvd in order to make the 0545 shuttle to the Navy base where I will go through medical/physical processing, aka MEPS. This processing is to make sure that I'm physically(more healthy than actual strength) and mentally able to be apart of the U.S. Navy. I'm excited about this seemingly progression forward to what I hope to obtain. On a side note, I found out my grades for my classes last semester. I received three As and one A-! I'm so stoked about that! I thought, at best, I would've received a B but I'm happy with the A- as it looks better. This makes my GPA for UB a 3.92! Hopefully I can keep that up next semester! I've just ordered my books from chegg.com and campusbookrentals.com so I'll hopefully have those before classes start. Yesterday I took out three books from Lockwood library on campus. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami; How it is by Samuel Beckett; and Dreams at the End of the Night by Ewald Murrer. I'm a bit over the halfway point in the Murakami book so I'm hoping to finish that today. He's an absolutely magnificent writer! I adore his (translated) words. So fucking beautiful. Well I'm taking a breather from physics for now. I feel like I haven't learned a thing, which is more or less the truth. overdose

Here's to another goddamn new year... [Jan1 @ 8a] bumpercar_blues In comparison to past New Year's eves I would rank yesterday as one of the worst I've experienced in a long while. Erin didn't tell me where she was or what she was doing, so I was alone in the apartment ringing in the New Year with Chris Mott(via AIM), Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin and CNN. Oh yeah, and my last Full Moon. A few friends had shot me a text around midnight but they're all so very far away. Travis is in Texas, Nick is in Connecticut, Mike is in South Carolina and my family are in Rochester, Texas, South/North(visiting) Carolina. Oh well, no use in bothering myself about it. It's over and done with and can not be changed. To be fair, I couldn't have done much or stayed out late because I was scheduled at 9:30am to open the shitty theater. SO awesome! Gleason is coming out today but has to leave at eleven Saturday morning. It'll be nice to see the guy as I haven't in quite some time now. I tried to while I was in Rochester last week but I needed to see and spend time with family more. I only had one night with friends (Nick and Matt). I haven't the faintest idea when he plans on coming or even what we're going to do as I'm not feeling like drinking at all. In fact, I think that's going to be part of my New Year's resolution: stop drinking in quantity. I will only allow myself to have a single beer whenever I do drink. Along with that I will try and run more since I plan on running the Buffalo Marathon at the end of May. I will have to think a bit more about what is considered a bad habit, or bad lifestyle, and work on changing that. It's a bit difficult since I am trying to get into the Naval Officer program so I really can't have a bad lifestyle. I weighed myself last night...it was a bit devastating. This morning didn't change much, around 4lbs less but I wish it were a full 8lbs less. Somehow I gained 4-6lbs during this holiday break. Even with hill running I did with my cousin on Sunday. Nearly a week ago but still. I guess I have been overindulging and drinking. Another reason why I want to quit the drinking. I wish UB's Alumni Arena was open so I could go run. If the road isn't too icy I may after work today or tomorrow after Brian leaves. Who knows.... I just feel so fat and lazy. I did notice a soft layer forming earlier in the week, but didn't think too much of it. Ugh. Mistake. Well I am going to get going...blech. overdose

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