Has anyone seen my sanity laying around anywhere?

Hello everyone.

Lack of motivation is setting in and I find it difficult to even think about what I will write today. The hours are still long and the temperatures have nowhere to go but up. Even eating food is a chore because of my body and mind's sole interest in taking in fluid to replace what I have lost. In other words I am eating less, sleeping less, and drinking more water. Oh well, you aren't here to have a life, you are here to work. End of discussion.

If I haven't already said earlier I have moved into the permanent housing for the duration of this tour. They look like trailer homes save for the fact that they have three rooms with two individuals in each. They are they best we have had since we started this deployment last fall yet they are smaller than my first dormroom in freshman year. You would not believe the difference a real bed makes! After sleeping on cots for the past whatever time, a bed with a matress is the highlight of one's day.

I miss home. I really don' t think about it a whole lot during the day but I just wrote a letter to my Father and I realized just how much I miss being in Minnesota and having a life. I miss the seasons and I miss the miserable winters and humid summers. I miss the stress of having to prepare for finals week at Gustavus which is what all my fellow Gusties are doing right now. I miss seing my friends and family and the time I had to do whatever I felt like. I miss driving down the road without a care in the world because I knew that nobody wanted to harm me.

I am very adapt to stress. I have dealt with it all my life and I have shouldered most of it on my own. The stress that people encounter here is a very different stress from the kind that they felt at home, even I feel myself losing grip and I wonder if I will get up the next day to go to work. Of course I do get up, and of course I go to work, and when the job is done I go to sleep so that I can do it again the next day. That really is the life of a soldier.

I wish my best to everybody at home,
Nick

On the brighter side of things!

CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A BOY: Congratulate Dan and Angela on the new member to their family: Ryan Willard born on the 9th of May in Detroit Lakes with all eyes, ears and fingers (as far as I know). Congratulations you two!