the spirit of the IDF

highlights of the day:

1) inspection. i'm going to have to get this discipline officer's number - i unfolded the poster when she came around, and again, no reaction. impressive as hell.

2) air force transfer close to confirmation. i'll know more during the next week.

lowlights:

1) starting off the morning with a 2.5 hour lecture on the history of the army archives. and how they work. everyone else found it boring. i was on the verge of sitting upside down on my seat in the hope that the headache fairies would get confused.

and i was sitting next to a really stupid captain who gave me attitude when i asked her a question. why are some people so unsociable?

2) we all ate in the mess hall. we all felt sick afterwards.

3) some ars got in my face after i walked up to the armoury and tried to relinquish my weapon: i was holding a banana. this kid, as is the case with all arsim, doesn't possess a sense of humour, so he did the crazy-eyes it's-fighting-time thing and started threatening me. that pisses me right off; fortunately there was someone else around to diffuse the situation. still aggravating, though.

4) immediately afterwards, our client unit called in a major bug - i spent the next three hours running from building to building, trying desperately to figure out what the hell was screwing everything up. with our contacts from the client unit phoning me every five minutes looking for an update. drove me nuts.

i needed to write a recommendation for myself today. i have discovered that i'm totally incapable of kissing my own ass.

at work, my headache's abated somewhat, and food's on the way. and work's back to being in the "interesting" category; which is great!