Monday Morning

[poliphilo]

Woke up early and there was this strong, grapefruity yellow light behind the curtains. I should have got up right then and taken a hit of the sunrise, but instead I stayed put and thought about the dreams I'd been having and by the time I finally did tumble myself out of bed the eastern sky was colourless.

 Only dream I remember now is the one in which Harrison Ford was demonstrating his acting range by taking the female lead in some Merchant Ivory-type period drama.

Then it was off to Preston to pick up Joe's sick-pay. The Army say they won't pay him through the bank because he went AWOL. We say he didn't go AWOL- and the fact that he's posted as such is down to his Company Sergeant Major being vindictive. Anyway it's looking as though this present arrangement is getting to be as inconvenient for them as it is for us, so they'll probably be taking action to normalise things.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I hope they resolve this quickly. How ridiculous.

Probably it will come at the end of the assessment period (I have been reading Joe's journals).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We now have a date for him to see the Army psychiatrist. That's going to be the biggest hurdle....

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I like Joe's attitude, though: he will tell the truth, and it will be enough.

What a Mad-Hatter's Tea Party this is--where a psychiatrist passes judgement on the sanity of a person who finds war and its trappings abhorrent.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of that old hippie movie- Alice's Restaurant- with the very lovely Arlo Guthrie.

And how they wouldn't allow him in the army to go kill people in Vietnam because he had a criminal conviction for littering.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I just remembered that my husband, who was in Vietnam, told me that if a soldier threatened suicide, armed guards watched him.

Of course, my husband was a thorough liar...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But that doesn't sound so far-fetched.

I'm a long-time peacenik. It was a bit weird when my son went into the army but it was his life not mine. And now I'm helping him fight the army- and that's weird too.

[cosmolinguist]

That thing about sunlight behind curtains and a colorless sky happens to me all the time. Ah, well, at least there are some good things about going back to Minnesota; it'll still be relatively nice there.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But you'll be coming back to Manchester some time, right?

[cosmolinguist]

Yep, I'll be back early in the new year, and I'll be married!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!