*Good* news...

[desertvixen]

For all those who have enjoyed the vents of insanity resulting from my workdays, they shall be ending. This next four day set (Saturday through Tuesday) is my last set on the ops floor. I don't leave for my 96B class until the middle of May (going early so I can go home for a few days) and until then, I'll be working in the company as our Public Affairs person (translation: photographing unit events, nagging people to write their things for the unit paper, and probably serving as our new platoon sergeant's admin assistant. Unless I get moved into a new platoon. I have to go in and chat about that today.)

I'll be working Monday-Friday, PT at 0530, then working roughly 0830-1600 depending on the day. Of course, there's no federal holidays in between now and when I leave. :( So I won't be enjoying the traditional privelege of the day workers. It's going to be a busy job, but a) I'll have a little more free time to work on school, etc b) I'll be more likely to get award/recognition when I leave. And those, my friends, add up to promotion points. I went and added some yesterday, so as of 1 April I'll be 270 points away from maxing my score. They're predicting a drop in points, possibly this summer, so I might be able to get picked up while in school (one of the last ever Russian linguists to get promoted as a Russian, at the rate this thing is going). That would be *sweet*. Also, around end of April/beginning of May, I'll be able to add more civ ed points for my school work.

I'm happy, and cheerful, and must take uniforms to the cleaners to get made more presentable. The only drawback of being in the company is having more of a requirement to "look sharp".

DV

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, DV! That sounds great. As for last ever Russian linguist to be *useful,* the way P*tin is acting lately, reminds me way too much of the Cold War...Russian may come back to the front burner sometime, after all (g).

My graduate and undergraduate degrees (from the late 70s) are in German. You can imagine how useful *that* language was when I made very tentative inquiries in '81 with two of the intell agencies. And my Chinese was not at all the nearly native status of my German at the time. (And since I haven't even taught German since '85, I now suffer from Craft's Disease (can't remember a f***ing thing) (g)) and struggle with retrieving either of them!

Good luck with your new Public Affairs persona!

[sweet-iced-tea.livejournal.com]

That's great news! Good luck. (I also have an absolutely useless undergrad in German.)

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Many of the senior Russian linguists in the Army were once... German linguists.

I'll still have my Russian skills on the record, so if they need me, they can have me. I spent TOO long learning Russian, and I am going to keep it.

DV

[darksakura.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool! I'm glad things are working out!

I still have no idea what to do with all the Japanese I've taken (and will be taking) except to go shopping on my honeymoon. =P

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hopefully this means less aggravation for you. Things are looking up!