for some time i've been dogged by the question of what to do with my life. it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that office careers just aren't going to cut it. i can't fucking stand the cube farms, the florescent lighting, the desk bound inactivity. i've been tossing around getting my teaching credential, but the more i think about it the less i'm inspired to go for it. can you see me in a 'multicultural pedagogy' class? fuck no. writing is always present. i love writing, and i'd love to write as a career, but it's so unlikely. writers just don't make money anymore. publishing is such a trial. people don't really read. it's a sad state of affairs. so, i decided to join the Marines. i started by talking extensively with my brother, who's been in the Marines for a decade. he told me a lot about his experiences, what i should expect, what opportunities are available, how i should deal with the recruiters. what MOSes i might want to pursue. the thing is, i want to see war. these wars we're fighting, that we're sure to fight in the near future, are the most important events of our generation. i don't want all of my opinions to be formed through heresey. i want to be there, see it, fight in it. i want to see combat and know the effects of it. i want to feel what it means ot kill a man who is trying to kill you. i've always thought of my life as the sum of my experiences. for a long time i took risks simply to increase the opportunity for experience. good or bad, it is all experience, it is all breadth in knowledge of existence. i signed last tuesday. i fly to San Diego on the 17th. i enter boot camp on the 18th of April. i still haven't told my parents. my mom is going to flip out. i'm sad about that, but i have to live my life.

april fools

I hope so.

probably not, but i remain optimistic.

The Pandyr really wants to join the Marines after reading some book. Unfortuntly though, you need a green card, and the chances of that are so freakin slight, it won't happen.

He just told me its because our army is crap and in the Marines you get real guns.

He just told me its because our army is crap and in the Marines you get real guns.

o.O

Is he shitting me? He's got to be shitting me. I'm frightened.

i, for one, applaud nate the killing machine.

...so posts (gay) jack.

jack,you need to check trhis out http://www.youchoose.org.uk/

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What's your major malfunction, mister? Want to see war? Join the Peace Corps.

Antigone, who are you referring to?

he means LEGBA. you know LEGBA, don't you?

Is that like SMEGMA?

related to CHUPACABRA

Well, jack, i thought they invented smoking tobacco almost 4oo years? well for that old skinny man, he smoked tobacco using bamboo as pipe,how long ago did they invented smoking tobacco??? how interesting, Uhmm, never heard of that before.....and Antigone, what does smegma has anything to do with legba?oh i get this, jack, i think antigone want something for for you to educate yourself about smegma.lol! Whoooo ,LOL!

you're thinking!

Antigone, jack, the noch ness monster as well as chupacabra well as space alien do not exist, I know you have been reading to much book in which brought you into wrong sense of perception. They all do not exist, your too feeble, but forgive me for saying that.It is a fool.

i do not exist. who are you talking to?

i don't want to join any corps. i have a serious problem with authority. april's fool pranks are stupid. i realized that this year. when i was little, maybe seven or eight, i ran out of my bedroom screaming that my bed was on fire. my mom just about killed me.

Moonit he can marry me if he wants a green card, I need the tax break. Tell him also to read "Generation Kill." If you guys can't get it in NZ, I'll mail you a copy. The airforce wants my nuts pretty badly. I don't know why since I don't believe I meet their health requirements. Although the temptation to get a pilot's license is great, I think I'm going to resist. For now. Nate, I want to know more about this. It's a pretty major life shift.

Hey jack, why don't you join the army, so proudly that you can be a Lean Mean Fudge Packing Machine! Bwhahahahahahahaha rotflmao!

So wait, me confused. Did you enlist Nate, or not? I saw a bumper sticker yesterday with that old Army advertising line, "An Army of One," which has got to be one of the stupidest slogans I've ever seen or heard.

Maybe the slogan is really a prediction.

He's fucking with us, people! (I kind of half believed you, Nate, you jerk...)

Platy, don't think we can get it here. He wants to know when the date is. I want to know how many reeses I get as payment for your tax break ;)

Hell we'll just buy the Reese's factory.

I know this sounds crazy, but how in the hell can anyone go and fight for this country. Shouldn't paying taxes or using the loopholes (LOL) be enough. I mean look at this that is going on TODAY. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_go_co/congress_oil_profits_5