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That's not nearly as dramatic. If you're not going to games intending to make the paper, why are you going at all?

Just curl up in the fetal position on home plate and cry.

It's not even the CUT, so much as the wonky color.

*stands on milk crate* GREGORY ALLAN GIBSON IS MY HERO!

Thanks, I think. They want me because years of playing goalie for hockey has turned me into a wall. However I am a 5'4 wall. I think center is what they're hoping I'll pick but I'm too self-conscious to make snaps. There will be a fumble and then I'll get anxious, and mess up the snap again, and get more anxious...I think I'll try guard. @stkjock our school is too poor for that kind of field time.

I got recruited to the high school football team. As a rising senior. I have not a clue what I'm doing. I barely know rules, much less how to tackle and snap and throw. I was told to try out for the defensive line in July, because who cares about repeated concussions? Ironically, I don't think there's a single place more filled with guys who know football than this baseball forum. Help me, oh dear lord help me.

Everybody is talking about this place like it's the Parris Island of the Army...

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I shouldn't have to join the military to not freeze to death on the concrete and yet here we are. That's why I'm upset.

You didn't think that a kid joining the military on their seventeenth birthday, before they've even finished their junior year, has any idea what adulthood is like? I'm certainly not enlisting to play with guns. I've been in it for the past year, dude. I don't have heating oil because I decided to buy groceries this week, and I lose my health insurance June 30th, thus (part of) my reasoning for joining the Guard. Not only am I in it, I'm in the SH*# part of it. I don't have to be proud of this country and I don't have to be proud of myself for joining it's military when it's done out of necessity for survival. ESPECIALLY when it's done out of necessity for survival at SEVENTEEN. Some of us have a very long upwards battle to fight, and it's not just the final hike at Basic. If I had my way I'd be going to paramedicine academy or umpire school but I don't, because I've been dumped on the street by one parent and forced to live with the other, not entirely excellent one, who's broke as hell too. So save the "travel the world and then you'll be proud of your country" for when YOU'RE being threatened with electrocution because you don't "conform" and bills are being pushed that strip you of your dignity. GD.

I'm afraid I won't have time to visit. All that running and such. You understand, I'm sure.

This is cute.

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Yah, that's the point. I go to basic, finish my senior year, get my ETT2, go to medic training. Then I only have one year left and free college.

BOI (and no rolled eyes on my comment about my favorite hack, impressive )

THANK YOU BUDDY PAL I ALREADY FIXED IT

Fort Leonard Wood. I have no idea where that is.

Everybody who's ever talked to me about military knows about my disdain for National Guardsmen but the beauty of the Guard is they let you go to college if you have a 1.8 GPA and the academies generally do not. And I'm really competetive in like, trivial pursuit or defending Brannon Braga's writing, but not with school, so ROTC is OUT.

Yes, MUCH warmer...I don't like heat exhaustion.

I turn 17 in four weeks (how's that, all you guys who knew me when I was 12) and that means in four weeks and two days I fly to Anchorage and get grilled on my infamous concussion before standing in front of a soldier I've never met and signing my life away to a nation I'm not remarkably proud of. I ship to Missouri in June. GOOD TIMES AWAIT ME IN CAMOFLAGUE HELL.

so am I (Hungarian.)

@Matt @BT_Blue you guys are ruiniNG CHRISTMAS

Hi, Matt.

I guess it comes with the habitat. I like trees and don't get a respectable one this year. @Stk004 is not enthusiastic about my (three foot) tree. Share your trees! T R E E T H R E A D.