please don't

today started off last night as i got into bed, with a sudden and intense fear. last time it was sharks, this time it was pennywise the clown.

i had an opportunity to advance a bit with my guitar this morning, my fingers are finally flexible enough to hold the strings with the tips - a much better sound. of course, it's a new bunch of places to hurt :P

first important note for the day: skinny jeans. there's no justification for wearing them, they make you look stupid. couple them with winkle-pickers and you have a candidate for worst dressed ever.

i waited 45 minutes for the first bus, and an hour and a half for the second. more than i would need if i was a civilian to say "i quit". in fact, i said it a number of times today, but there's nobody around who can make it official.

my twitch (right eyelid) is getting the better of me. nystire tells me it's stress-related, but it's aggravating and it needs to go away :/

the day began with me sorting out a hardware problem (much hysterical laughter in the background), and then a most empirical lunch - i'm ready to make an official claim that the primary source of my illness over the course of the last few weeks is directly related to the quality of food consumed in the mess on a daily basis.

nystire's quote for the day: "bulimia - zero calories, twice the taste!"

i dealt with the food using a nap (i'm very glad both idiot commanders were out today) and too much chocolate (tim tams, there is such a thing as too much), right before entering a pointless and boring meeting for an hour and following that up by justifying my salary with an hour and a half cleaning the kitchen and taking out the trash.

the last wonder of the day was fighting with the nco-ness of the idiot in charge of the shuttle. i'll be making a formal complaint tomorrow - he's not willing to allocate (or capable of, it doesn't matter) the guard duty in an intelligent fashion and has kicked two of our officers off because they're not willing to commit to his rotation. i *will* make a noise.

i was awfully unhappy when i got home, and went off immediately to try and remedy my state of mind by buying canvases and sitting at coffeeholic. halfway through my meal there my mood did improve, the other locals were providing a good laugh and i've been given the number of one of the cute girls in an attempt by... everyone... at matchmaking. i'll invite her somewhere neutral :P

i met up with sjo at the train station and we caught the bus to the cinema. i was shocked that we missed the first twenty minutes of the movie - they started the actual movie at the listed time. no promos, no adverts. wtf?!?!

star trek is a great film, i really enjoyed myself. we took a walk and a shuttle (the taxi driver lurking outside the mall asked for a preposterous sum of money for a short drive), and i'm now hopping into the shower before waking up in four hours to catch the damn shuttle.

i *hate* the shuttle. i *hate* my base.

*sigh*