Archive for October 8th, 2007

I just don’t seem to be that motivated to write anything lately.  I don’t know if its the fact that not much new is going on, or whether I just don’t have energy anymore.  I read other milblogs for ideas, but new material is hard to come by here.  Its basically the same routines everyday.  People think the war here is a lot of shooting, blowing things up, and IEDs every day.  The media portrays Iraq as this long never-ending battle where US Soldiers are always engaged or about to be engaged, but thats just not it at all.  Its long hours of boredom punctuated by short periods of terror (I think I read that somewhere), and I guess that’s the crux.  The long hours of boredom are just that and I find them worth writing about as much as readers find worth in reading them.  However, since this is a sort of “realtime memoir,” I will do my best to continue to recount my experiences in this wasteland.