By the Pain I see in others...

Greetings! Another fine evening! This will mark the... third day of being out to sea.

Sorry, all my non-verizon peeps; It's tough to email ya!

Tonight, I am busying myself with the arduous task of creating an Evaluation document for myself. Have you ever tried to sell yourself? I'm not talking of late nights, out on the street....
I'm talking about, "Hey! Look at me! Yeah, that's right! ME! I'm the one you want to talk to, the one with all the information you need, and who you can trust!" Yeah... it's a bit tough to sell yourself to the masses. I mean, you are walking a constant fine line between being an Adonis, and placing yourself below the rest of the people that you compete with.
I am one of about 16 Third Class Petty Officers onboard this ship. That means, when i write my evaluation, it has to be worthy of placement above 15 other souls... Yep! Fun stuff!

Today was a lot of fun, actually. From now until eternity, I will never play the game, "Sorry", without bursting into uncontrollable laughter. From now until this blasted Seaman leaves, I will never hear the end of the plethora of Chuck Norris jokes he has...
Today, we wrote up a special request form, stating that, whenever Seaman Schubring wants to speak, he must first ask permission via writing. Everyone got a kick out of that, except for Schubring, who had to write down his dismal feelings on a sheet of paper. Ker poW!

I helped out a buddy a few weeks ago, named Andre. He's a russian national who just got married about a year ago. He fell in love quite quickly, and moved in with her and her two children. I can't say that what he did was the most frugal of things, but I can see it in his eyes that he is one of the proudest and happiest men on the ship. So, the man's issue was this; He recently started talking to one of his long time loves from Russia. What he failed to tell her was that he was happily married. So here we are, sitting on the mess decks, and he's telling me his whole story. By this time, he's already decided that his next email to the woman in question will state that he is married, and that he wishes to be good friends. Now, the issue at hand is that he needs to tell his wife...or not? Now, me myself and I are all advocates of the truth, but we all know how difficult it is to tell the truth when there are so many conflicting items... I straight up told him, "Tell your wife. Be blunt. If she gets angry... accept this. You talked to a woman, and failed to tell her, "Where it's at, yo". You failed the initial test. Don't fuck it up more. But be sure to explain to her all aspects of where you went wrong, and what you plan to do to correct said mistake." I think that was a good recommendation, right? I hope so. Lol... Apparently I'm the one to go to for suggestions on marital problems on this piece...

So, back I go to writing this Evaluation. Afterward, a few chapters of The Da Vinci Code, and then a few pages of the Iliad.

So tell me, how does it feel to run out of nothing?