New Chapter of Life

Well, the most stressful quarter of my grad school life is over and the program is done. I have my MBA (and the school loans to prove it) and can think about life other then work and school.

However, the goal didn't come without costs. Last week I went to the ER with chest pressure and was in the hospital until Friday evening. Everything is ok, and the symptoms I was feeling were most likely stress related but it is a reminder that everything we do has a cost. Now, I get to recover again from all the tests and start to figure out the next phase of my life. Same company or not, etc. etc.

I think I may have to find a way for the boss to start writing again or his cats may end up like the horse in the movie godfather (jk, i think).

I don't really know what I'll be writing about in the future, the news and politics for some of it, but that will only go so far. I'm losing interest in politics as both sides are bad, although the left seems to take all the wrongs of the right and go farther. I'm tired of having to vote for the lesser fool or idiot.

I don't know if anyone who has visited here has heard about Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his story in The New Republic magazine. Basically he claimed that he and his fellow soldiers were behaving very poorly due to the stress of combat. At first, no one was sure if Beauchamp was a real person. So the Mil Blogs started to dig and they found out Beauchamp was real, he is a soldier and has or is serving in Iraq. However, the truth seems to have ended there. The things he wrote about he and is fellow soldiers were doing were "fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth"" as reported by the Weekly Standard. Beauchamp's claim has been investigated by the military and he has signed a sworn affidavit say the stories in TNR are false. He said he joined the military to help his goal of becoming a writer. Well he has a lot of publicity, wonder if it is of the type he wants. Hat tip Lucianne.

Have a good day and will hopefully be here daily, on weekdays from now on.