It don't rain but it pours (Updated)
Mar. 1st, 2006 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumLord, I hope I'm not jinxing this.
In January I applied for an exchange program. The odds were slim. One, they wanted E-7 and up. I'm an E-6. Two, it's an exchange, and my unit had nothing to offer (no training to occupy a British MI troop for two-weeks).
Today I got mail telling me I am supposed to go to Inverness from 23 Jun to 08 Jul. Frabjous day. I was bouncing about the house, gleeful and loud, pumping my fists and bellowing pointless ejactulations.
Then I read the memo that came with it. I am supposed to be at a conference in Little Rock, and arrive on 31 Mar. Fly in the ointment. I am also supposed to be in Korea until 01 Apr.
Right now NGB HQ is closed, so the problem won't be addressed at all until at least tomorrow. I am willing to fly from Seoul to Little Rock, to come home early, so as to return (even if as a legal fiction) to my Home of Record on the way to Little Rock. I am even willing to skip the Korea mission altogether. This sort of deal isn't likely to come my way again, and (for all the Korea Mission looks like a lot of fun, it will) I really want this one.
So, if you think good thoughts will help, send me some good thoughts.
(Update: Not being able to make the conference in Little Rock isn't a show stopper, so it looks as though I am going to be spending the Solstice in Inverness)
In January I applied for an exchange program. The odds were slim. One, they wanted E-7 and up. I'm an E-6. Two, it's an exchange, and my unit had nothing to offer (no training to occupy a British MI troop for two-weeks).
Today I got mail telling me I am supposed to go to Inverness from 23 Jun to 08 Jul. Frabjous day. I was bouncing about the house, gleeful and loud, pumping my fists and bellowing pointless ejactulations.
Then I read the memo that came with it. I am supposed to be at a conference in Little Rock, and arrive on 31 Mar. Fly in the ointment. I am also supposed to be in Korea until 01 Apr.
Right now NGB HQ is closed, so the problem won't be addressed at all until at least tomorrow. I am willing to fly from Seoul to Little Rock, to come home early, so as to return (even if as a legal fiction) to my Home of Record on the way to Little Rock. I am even willing to skip the Korea mission altogether. This sort of deal isn't likely to come my way again, and (for all the Korea Mission looks like a lot of fun, it will) I really want this one.
So, if you think good thoughts will help, send me some good thoughts.
(Update: Not being able to make the conference in Little Rock isn't a show stopper, so it looks as though I am going to be spending the Solstice in Inverness)
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Date: 2006-03-02 12:46 am (UTC)I hope there's time to visit a distillery, and get one of the treats which can only be gained at them, which is to say one of the 50cl valinch's, of cask strength whisky (which you, the buyer, have to draw out of the barrel yourself).
I know Bruichladdich I can only hope someplace close to Inverness does.
Should I be all sorts of silly and bring my inverness cloak with me?
TK
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Date: 2006-03-02 05:45 am (UTC)Are you asking the woman who can take a full-sized suitcase and fill it up for a weekend trip "because I might need this stuff"? ;)