Awful Monkey

I've decided I'm going to title these with movie quotes that are befitting of the updates. Hopefully you recognize them but some may be rather obscure(if you can guess this one, you go up a notch in my book). Post a guess in the comments if you'd like.

This is like a whole new world to me. It's almost like being on the clock 24 hours a day. There are break times, but you are constantly receiving calls to do work, training, drills and escape from others is near impossible. The seclusion of my coffin sized rack and an mp3 player has been sufficient for me thus far. I plug in, pick up a book, and I can drift away.

We have connections to the outside world, my department even moreso, but it almost feels like being on another planet. Walking out onto the fantail in the dark of night and seeing nothing but the neverending surroundings of water and this solitary vessel in the sea with a clear sky and the abundance of stars is awe inspiring. Maybe it's the Sci-Fi geek welling up in me again, but it really does remind me of all the many films and books about space exploration. The only people in a very large and limitless void to be traversed. To look at the more dire side of this vision, I can bring up a famous movie tagline, "In space, no one can hear you scream." We must solely rely on each other because we are so vastly out of reach from the rest of the world. I usually don't go on with some mystical diatribe, but it just had some impact on me last night.

Other than my babbling about explorative isolation, I am doing very well and am enjoying this experience immensely. I am learning very much and have found a great new group of people to befriend here. Hopefully any friendships that were formed will aide me when the time comes to become a Golden Dragon(for those that know about this), but I highly doubt that will help me at all.

The rest of the quote above: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.