24 days have passed since I reached day 0 and graduated! Haha, so my countdown leaves me at day minus 24. Up until yesterday I was free and those days felt just as amazing as I knew they would. I enjoyed and appreciated every last minute of it and I could write a small book telling of the places I went and the people I saw. Some of the best moments though, were simply being alone, haha! I was so glad to be able to sleep and shower without being watched, for once, and not being required to be accompanied if I so much as went out for a cup of coffee. I did however enjoy the company of Arlo once more, and finally, we could remain together after the sun went down.
Meanwhile, today I just got paid for all that wonderful time! I love this new job.
day before yesterday I reported to Fort Campbell and dread swept over me again, but it was the same sort of ill feelings I had when I first went to college, rather than the sense of doom I felt reporting to AIT. It's the feeling of being away from the familiar and unsure of the future. I was up at 4:30 the next morning. Got weighed and measured then basically released until Monday!
Amazingly, it turned out I'd arrived at the start of some sort of holiday weekend so at 6:30 AM, Thursday, my weekend began! I up and screwed it up by taking the bus to breakfast and accidentally getting off miles away from my car and being ushered into an orientation briefing I wasn't scheduled to take for another week. It lasted all damn day til almost 3 in the afternoon. OOPS. So goes the life of a scatterbrain.