I didn't use the Computer Center until a year and a half later. I marvelled how all these other students were wasting their limited time at this wonderful resource playing computer solitaire. Oh, if only I could have known . . .
next year there'll be mango seedlings growing all over the pasture where the seeds came out in piles of poop
being in the Uk we didnt get the AOL big roll out because at that time there weren't many AOL subscribers here (also I was in officer training at the time so like wrey I had other things to concern me , like learning to stop enlisted men going off with sexy peurto rican translators )
That's still a done thing you know? The amount if times I went to one if the computer rooms and see at least one person in pjs it's not even funny anymore (no doubt I'll see more when I head back in september)
At least Japanese girls have the decency to put on Daisy Dukes, fishnets, and crop-tops before coming to school
Well, someone failed on at least one count. I wonder where and who he is these days. Better that he lives in my memory, though. He had the kind of youthful prettiness that shines painfully bright but for only a short time. Pale as cream cheese. ... le sigh.
TMW you finally get the short bits the correct length, but the long bits arent long enough... i'm going to be here a while i think
It wasn't one of my guys then ... they were all muscles , tats, and scar tissue, who'd not only fallen out of the ugly tree but hit every branch on the way down... the several gay guys (of whom I had no official knowledge since homosexuality was banned in the army at the time and if i'd "known" i 'd have had to report them) were definitely very very grizzly bears.
That moment when you have just about exhausted all the information you can find on silver mining and still haven't found what you need.
One dude I was at DLI with came out after DADT was repealed. Of course, he'd been out of the service for quite some time by then, but the key was that we'd gone on to different units. The one I ended up in had a ton of guys who were quietly out to their peers, and basically everybody under the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) was perfectly cool with it, his unit not so much, I gather. As @Wreybies and I have mentioned before, people in intel have to be good at keeping secrets, and the gay guys (and girls) had lots of practice at that time.
I was infantry, and the gay guys in my platoon were pretty much out to their peers and sergeants (there was no way they couldnt be given the shit the straight guys got up too off duty ) . Personally I've always felt that what anyone does with their genitals with a consenting adult is their own business so I just made sure I had no 'formal knowledge' to report, just as I of course wasn't aware of the girls who'd get smuggled into the block on a Friday night or of the various other shit the guys got up to. My view was so long as they did their jobs, worked and trained hard and didn't do anything too dangerous off duty the rest wasn't my or the army's business.... this may have had direct bearing on my lousy performance reviews and lack of promotion. My friend and fellow platoon leader Jamie had a bad moment when one of his guys got caught cottaging by the civilian police, but fortunately my guys were either more discrete or luckier.
TMW you google designs for bachelor pads for story purposes. I'm pretty sure I didn't include 'American sitcom' as a search parameter. Or gay.
It wasn't a complaint. Some of those apartments are pretty mind-blowing. Buuut not fitting for my character. Also, I've completely forgotten how bachelor pads smell like... I mean, I have a memory of a certain male smell hanging in the air when you step into an apartment only occupied by a man, be they sloppy or neat, but I'm drawing a blank as to how I should describe it.
Stale cologne, old towels, and lunchmeat. Sometimes mold, because they don't have to (or want to) take garbage out very often. Or maybe that's just the kind of bachelors I'm familiar with.
TMW a new to you Beta messages you to say "You're an asshole. You made me ugly cry. I love you so much."