Millions of things

are running around the tracks of my mind right now. I made a list of things to do this week to make myself feel accomplished. I'm going to Florida with Zack for maybe a week starting on Friday. We're going to check out Jacksonville, Gainesville, and St. Augustine. I'm very excited for this to happen. I'm already trying to brainstorm ideas for my next little trip. Current possibilities are New Orleans and Coastal Texas. We shall see how things pan out. This summer is getting closer everyday and my levels of anticipation, anxiety, and excitement are sky rocketing. Who know whats going to happen. I hope it gives me a new spin on things though. I'm confident it will though. My friend Matt just moved to Lake Tahoe for basically no reason at all and I'm just as excited for him as I am for myself. Being somewhere and knowing nobody and nowhere is such an exciting adventure in life. I've experienced it a few times on marginal levels, but never in a permanent relocation. I'LL KEEP YOU UP TO DATE.


In other news....
Strangely enough there was a new cadet in my unit this past weekend. He is FROM Kosovo. He lived the first 17 years of his life in Pristina. He was there as a civilian when shit was popping off nonstop. He was there when NATO bombed his city and countryside. Now, 9 years later, he is a working, breathing US citizen and training to become an officer in the United States Army. That blows my mind. 100%. I only WISH he had been on that deployment with us. It would have been incredible in ways I don't even know. oh well. Stories like that remind me that maybe our country still has something decent to offer the rest of the world. I hope he gets a chance to go back soon and see what we(and now inadvertently "he") have done for his home country. I can't wait for him to go back and be a hero because he has essentially "made it".

Things are never as bad as they seem. Whenever I get to bummed on myself I get mad because its usually me being selfish and not waking the fuck up. I want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. The world isn't completely fucked yet.