Chat, check-in, and hang out

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I did my blood test this morning and did early morning yoga. Kicking a few goals. I remembered to eat breakfast.

 

[ms spock]

Waving to everyone!

 

[gorgonzola]

Waving to everyone!

<waves back in Minnesotan>

 

[gorgonzola]

Also, I'm rather enjoying being a bit of a mystery for a few days.

Hey @Paladin_141, been missing you these past few months. Hope you're doing alright.

 

[ms spock]

I went to the NAIDOC Week Festival this morning and it was brilliant. I went with K and met Tania.

I can only be with people for an hour or two.

A new person was a bit much. But I did okay.

Now I am done for the day.

The combination of today and the email to end my sessions with my psychiatrist (other than medications) has all hit me.

 

[Paladin_141]

Hey @Paladin_141, been missing you these past few months. Hope you're doing alright.

I'm alive. It's been an eventful couple of months.

Contract f*ckery keeping me moving from place to place. New contract is for more money than I've ever made in my life, which is nice, if the paperwork clears.

Spoken to some of what was left of my previous team. Boss says they stiffed all of us on paperwork, so it's been a real ball-ache.

One guy who had a kid with a medic last time is just back in country; he was dropping the kid off with his parents. The enemy hit the aid post she was working at and killed the whole medical team. He saw the whole thing. He's out for blood, doesn't care about the money.

The drone girl who was the voice in my head last time is coming back in country in a couple of months and accepted my invitation to dinner.

The boss from last time has invited me to his house to meet his wife, since he went native.

With the new team, the boss is keen to make it a permanent arrangement; he's fussy and has rejected about a hundred guys, he says. He wants to make a team he can take elsewhere once things are sorted here, if that ever happens. Going to lead us all to fortune and glory, no doubt. Well, that’s the plan.

But for now, I am sitting in a hotel room on my way from one place to another place, via dinner with a bunch of local SOF guys who saw my union jack patch and insisted I come and sit with them and now I am sleepy and have indigestion, because I think they gave me a jaegermeister shot without warning. It's been a long time since I touched that stuff.

I thinknit broke my punctuation, too.

You know, it's lonely, travelling alone like this, but I now have the biggest social circle I have ever had. Like, dozens of the craziest, weirdest, most off-the-chain people you could ever hope to meet. It's funny. The various group chats are wild.

 

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It is a lovely day here today.