Pot Helps pt. 7 (army friday)

0600hrs: 1st wake-up/re-sleep.
0610hrs: 2nd wake-up/re-sleep.
0615hrs: 3rd wake-up coupled with bathroom usage and 4 minutes of bed rest.
0620hrs: Depart room and make way to first formation.
0630hrs-0724hrs: Physical Training - Company 'Fun' Run.
0724-0735hrs: 'Bullshitting' with peers.
0735-0755hrs: CNN viewing/internet browsing while waiting for turn with bathroom.
0755-0812hrs: Bathroom (shower, empty colon, teeth maintenance, assurance of facial continuity, etc..)
0812-0845hrs: Dining Facility Breakfast
0845-0855hrs: Running around trying to find 2nd formation because we (my roommate/hetero-life mate and I) neglected to secure information regarding 2nd formation.
0855hrs-0913hrs: 2nd formation (AKA Taking fucking forever to be told information you have already known for just about the whole week OR information you don't even need to know while in a rectangle of people all standing with legs shoulder width apart and both hands thumb-clasped in the small of the back(aka lower back))
0914-0914hrs: Obligatory post-formation Nof joke.
0914-1126hrs: Pretending to do work.*
1126-1202hrs: Lunch (most likely not a DFAC meal considering it's only been like, what? 3 hours since you had that hearty pre-weekend breakfast and you might as well just make a sandwich from the groceries you got last weekend so you don't feel bad about buying food and not eating it).
1202-1248hrs: Counting the minutes until you have to return to work.
1250-1255hrs: Return to work.
1300hrs: Platoon leadership: 'Good News Everyone! We have nothing more to do for the day!'
1301hrs: Questions raised by platoon members about probability of 'getting out of work' early in response to information received addressing the lack of work available for the remainder of the work day.
1302hrs: Platoon leadership: 'Um, Just hold on one minute let me check with 1SG.'
1303-1303hrs: Obligatory Nof joke.
1303hrs - 1522hrs: Work-day purgatory-(the sitting around, rock-paper-scissors, cynical jokes, random bullshit tasks meant to give the idea that we DO have stuff to do, freecell on a laptop, text messaging and then finally being told 'Ok everyone, safety briefing is at 1600 so you can go but you must be back here by then. Matter of fact I want everyone back here at 1550 SHARP.')
1523hrs - 1545hrs: Might as well just go back to the room and enjoy the 67 degree air because we don't give a fuck we ain't paying the bills and it's humid as fuck here in GA.
1545-1615hrs: Waiting for this FUCKING FORMATION. LET'S GO.
1615 - 1644hrs: Do you realize we are standing in the sun as you go on, and on, and on, and on about the same fucking thing? - AKA Safety briefing.
1645hrs: Pick a cool song to blast on your radio while peeling out of the parking lot.
1645-1735hrs: Spontaneous game of FIFA04 with random barracks peer while wearing stripped down version of army uniform.
1735-1808hrs- Planning/Alcohol Purchasing.
1815hrs-1829hrs - Shower.
1830 - 0215hrs - Drunk. (There are too many non-significant and embarrassing events taking place during these hours that it isn't necessary to record them)
0215hrs - 0300hrs: Destruction of Exit Signs/Fire Extinguishers.
0300-?: Sleep.



* - AKA Shamming. Stay tuned for forthcoming piece regarding Sham.