Starship Troopers quote

"I just want to remind you apes that each and everyone one of you has cost the gov'ment, counting weapons, armor, ammo, instrumentation, and training, everything, including the way you overeat-has cost on the hoof, better half a million. Add the thirty cents you are actually worth and thats runs quite a sum." Lieutenant

This was said just before the squads first jump. It sounds like you basic pep talk before a military action, the leader saying the rest of you are dirt and don't damage the equipment. i actually found this part of the book rather funny when i read it. It kind of caught me off guard as i was reading and i laughed to it. This makes me wonder if in real life if officials tell their troops the same thing to try to "pump" them up. If i was going into a dangerous situation i would rather be told encouragement rather then don't hurt the equipment.

So many issues

I am probably one of the most lucky unlucky person at my school. I have so many things that alway seem to be wrong with me that all i can do is cringe and laugh. I have always fought being sick ever since i was young, and injuries come with sports and bad luck. I am also lucky to have family and a girlfriend who always are there for me.

Ever since kindergarden i have been sick. i think kindergarden i missed like 20 some days of school for being sick. The doctors said that getting my tonsils out would help and they did until junior high. Junior high i was back to being sick a lot. i think it was 7th grade when the lower part of my left lung had problems which made it hard to breath or exercise. Thats when i started getting seasonal bronchitis. We know i have allergies but im the 1% of the population that the allergy test don't work on, so i will never know. i'm always sick and its not fun. With my recent hospital experience i found some annoying things in my blood tests. I have a high acid content in my blood which means ill get to deal with kidney stones and joint problems, which i have delt with joint pain since i was 13. Just more issues to deal with. At least i have my family friends, and a great girlfriend. My family is always there for me and so is my girlfriend. My girlfriend has been a great help and very support full threw everything that has happen this year. All i can do now is laugh at all my issues thats all i can do.

I have so many issues but i dont care at this point. i just have to role with everything that happens. Hopefully ill get healthier later in life and if not i have the support of the ones i love.

Playing again

I can finally do something beside punt in football. I am so happy I can finally do something to help my team. After last week and my terrible punt and then having a great punt later in the game I'm ready for some real action.

I can finally do something. No more dealing with teammates who say i do nothing or saying all you do is punt why can't you kick perfect every time. I can take out all my frustrations from this year and this season out on someone who I won't have to see the next day. After basically two years i can finally play. I have to play with a basically a giant club for my elbow but it makes it all the more fun and satisfying lugging a club at someone and causing a little pain and frustration to someone besides myself. I can't wait i hope it goes well tomorrow.

Tomorrow will bring many surprises and great things i hope. Two years of missing something you used to really enjoy can mess with someone pretty bad. I just hope i get at least a little play time since its my last homecoming.

Who has been my greatest influence

I have had many people influence me in my life. My mom, my dad, my grandparents, and friends. All have taught me lessons in life that i use everyday. This has made me a better person.

My parents taught me to always try your best, as all parents do, and pushed me to do good in sports. With my arm injury last year i forced to just punt in football. My dad worked with me and helped me improve. When football season was done we continued to punt even threw the winter by going to a baseball hitting place and i kicked in their nets. My mom is like my coach and pushes me more then my dad. i have had friends influence me as well. Some of my friends got me interested into technology and gaming and i am now taking a computer drafting class and really enjoying it. My greatest influence is my grandpa. He has helped me in so many things. He is the perfect role model for me. I used to always want to grow up and be like Pa.

I have had so many influences in my life its hard to explain them all. With these people they have influenced who i am, a good person, a video game nerd, a punter, and a good friend to everyone i can be.

Senior Blues

This is my senior year and it’s off to a hard start. Your senior year is supposed to be your best year at school. I’m finding that hard to believe. When you’re a little kid you always look forward to your last year and “growing” up. When the year finally came around I found myself under a lot more stress then ever.

I have always been practicing and working hard for my senior year of football. Since I didn’t get to play football last year except punt I wanted my senior year to be great because I finally get to play. I continued to practice punting all year and got rather good at it. I won a punting camp in Nebraska and beat out forty kids and I realized I might have a sport that might bring me to college and really succeed in. I was extremely excited that I could finally play defense and help my team. Then a day before two-a-days I got really sick and ended up in the hospital with an illness. My neck swelled up so bad that I was having breathing issues. Almost all of my limp nodes in the left side of my neck were very swollen and doctors were running tests to make sure it wasn’t cancer developing. It was the scariest two days of my life, I don’t know how I would have made it threw it if my girl friend wasn’t at my side threw the whole thing. When the doctors finally determined it wasn’t cancer they sent my home and said it was a bacterial infection.

I missed all of two-a–days and now was very behind in football. A week after being in the hospital the doctors called saying I had mono. That means no full contact so any football again. All I can do is punt like last year. My senior is off to a terrible start. Now on top of mono I have a sinus infection adding to my discomfort. I am never going to be a hundred percent ever again this football season.

Senior year is supposed to be the best year of your life. Right now I find that hard to believe with all the recent events. So many things are supposed to be good your last year and I haven’t been able to locate any of them. Hopefully it will improve in the coming weeks.