Weekend week 2

I got up at 5:30 am to attend the captain’s speech and feedback round with the soldiers before the weekend at 6 am. at 6:05 am, I called him to tell him that there are 180 soldiers waiting for him… “I’m still in the quarters”, he said. Lesson learned, eh?

The feedback session was awful. He didn’t manage to have his slides projected (he works as a professional officer there, mind you!) and wasted most of the time on administrative bullshit (what to watch out for when asking for personal leave next year and so on.

One soldier asked if it was allowed to drink alcohol off work outside the quarters – because some soldiers spotted the captain drinking a glass of scotch around midnight on Thursday. He was stupid enough to answer “yes, the order only says there’s no alcohol allowed in the building, but please don’t make a mess outside”, just because he didn’t want to admit that he did something wrong.

I drove home with the deputy head of the unit, tried to stay awake with the aid of lots of coffee and Red Bull, but didn’t really manage. And now, after all these write-ups, I’ll continue not to sleep and try to get some things done over the weekend. For example some training, as I couldn’t do a single second of running this week :(