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Today I added links to my blog, things are really starting to get exciting here.

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It’s not mine

I’m watching Conan O’Brian and trying to stay awake on the overnight shift at a local residential facility that I now work at. Overnight shifts like this are kind of nice, all the residents are asleep, my Supervisor only cares that I stay awake and do rounds every 15 minutes, and most of my coworkers are dozing off as well. Even if I do start nodding off now, once 5am hits I will get my second wind and not be able to fall asleep until noon. Why it always works out to be noon is beyond me, it’s not a convenient time to sleep, and 8pm is not a convenient time to wake up either. Waking up at 8pm would mean no contact with the civilized world and no working out, no dinner with my wife, and no sunlight. I cannot handle that.

So, today when I get home I am going to punish myself into sleeping. Something tells me this is a bad idea but here is what I am going to do . . .After telling my wife that I got home without falling asleep at the wheel and killing someone in the process, I am going to put on a sauna suit and go for a 2 mile run. Two miles (plus or minus a few dozen feet) after being awake all night, now that will be fun. It’s something I am surprised the Army didn’t do to us in basic training, but I am sure they have something similar in their other schools for the guys who wear the uniform 24/7.

I suppose that after my run I will experience a good deal of pain and exhaustion which will keep me awake for a little while, but then I will be out like a light. The pain after I wake up from my muscles screaming at me will be exquisite, but well worth it once I finally get back in shape. . . .

Speaking of being in shape, I have been accepted into The Masters Seminary. I got my acceptance letter two weeks ago now (I think) and my Seminary training will be funded by the government if I make it into the Chaplaincy program as well.

Chaplaincy in the Army, like everything else in the Army, requires a sizable amount of paperwork, phone calls, background checks, and waiting . . .waiting . . . .waiting . . . .opps we forgot to have you fill these out . . . .waiting . . .waiting . . . fill these out too . . . .ad nauseam. Thankfully everything has been running smoothly so far, and while I’m not a person given to seeing a divine sign posted on every door, I do believe the fact that everything going relatively smoothly for getting into Seminary and the Chaplaincy is a good sign that this is where God wants me, it is the direction that He wants me to head in. Especially when I consider all the obstacles which I perceived to be in the way (not the least of which was myself in some respects).