• an antibiotics prescription (finally!) after a month of negative tests, misdiagnosis and suffering. (Army medical system = FAIL.)

• a new phone that has:
  • a touch screen
  • a camera
  • user-friendly, very fast internet
  • good speakers
  • great design
  • lots of general shininess and features I haven’t even started to explore yet (tv channels! Unlimited viewing time for $6 a month!). This is the first time in my life that my phone isn’t at least thee years behind the herd, and I have to say – it feels really good.

• an official email from one’s division commander (who is a general and two ranks below the Chief of Staff, and for whom one has a great amount of personal respect), sent to the entire branch, praising a weekly report one started and has been in charge of writing ever since.

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These past two weeks have been intense, strange, awesome and more interesting than any other period in my service so far. This is not just because of external events that touched on my work (though there were certainly enough of those) but also because personal, internal developments. After this past week and a half, I think I can finally say that I’m getting the hang of this job. At the risk of jinxing myself – I feel ready to take on almost anything it can throw at me.