#sailor problems

[imyamagucci]

civilian interactions be like

Female (Approaching): hey you! Me (In Navy Service Uniform) : sup. Female: (gesticulating whilst projecting) So you must be like, a billionaire, since you’re like, in the army. You guys get paid soooo much. Do you want to-- Me (sudden About-Face): k, lol.

[dress-blues]

The closer I get to leaving the more I realize this is the hardest thing that I will probably ever do in my life & it makes me so excited & terrified at the same time. I won't get to see or hear from my boyfriend, I actually don't even have his address so that I can write him on his base while I'm in RTC & he still hasn't sent me the first email since he deployed, but hey, I'm sure he's super busy where ever he is. Hopefully he ports within the next 48 days so I can get a phone call. I'm sure he will dock pretty close to them considering he is on a 4 month deployment.

[turn-down-for-starboard-boats]

that moment when I've gotten sick before every big regatta since September... now I'm just praying that I'll be fine for midwinters

[turn-down-for-starboard-boats]

And as high school sailing season approaches, I sit down with my computer and spend hours writing a proposal to the athletic director on why sailing should be a varsity sport. Ugh. I don't want to do this, but I want my team credit, and I want to graduate without doing any other sports.

Now how the hell do I make the fact that sailing is really fucking expensive sound like a good thing for the school?

[turn-down-for-starboard-boats]

Sailing bruises, go away, don't come back another day

[turn-down-for-starboard-boats]

The academic dean sent me an email commending me for myself and my team's performance "representing our school in the water." I was happy, then I realized... If we do it right, we shouldn't be IN the water. We're ON the water.

[actualpuppywillgraham]

Every time after I've been sailing for a long time I have to remind myself that I can't just pee whenever I want

[sherlocked-sassenach]

I have always had this problem where I can only sleep if I'm on the righthand side of whatever I am sleeping on. This wasn't such a big deal in squadbays or ships as the right side is the only side. So I got use to the cozy little one sided bed and came to love that. However, now that I'm landlocked I cannot sleep. The bed is way too big and it's uncomfortable to sleep on the right side because the rest of the bed gets cold. Like, North of the Wall cold. And just as hostile. I don't want to share the bed either. Meh. The only good rests I've had since last October were either on a boat or on someone's couch. This pattern cannot continue, it affecting every other aspect of my life. So for resolution to this predicament I've found that if I can get to sleep around 10, I may get between an hour to four hours of sleep before my nightly(morningly?) session of INTJ self sabotage of the brain. I wish I had an off switch sometimes