By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 8 December 1999

BT Journal Entry

Breakfast was strange, surreal. I ate with De Los Santos
and Perez and some other chic whose name I forget. De
Los Santos was saying,"Some girls are just quitters 
(talkin' about the girls on general discharge). Can you
imagine, your parents are so proud of you for being in
the army and then you quit and they see someone in the
grocery store who says,'Oh, how is so-n-so liking the
army?' and they have to tell them,'She quit.'" For some
reason, I CRACKED UP laughing. I laughed so hard I had
to blow my nose. The girls looked at me like I was crazy.
De Los Santos goes,"Rainwater, what's so funny?" and I
said,"Oh, I just got a wild hare up my ass." I AM ALONE,
an alien. No one sees my point of view. I can't even 
laugh when I want to w/o standing out like an erect penis.
    Oh- that's another thing. Yesterday I was sitting at
one of the big desks in the CQ room with Elmer Lemon
(a funny character- we're always doggin' him 'cause he's
so goofy and is always glowering- he has a voice like
Marty McFly's father in "Back to the Future") and Michaels
said something about the "male desk" and the "female desk"
and he was serious. I go,"I didn't know the desks had
gender" and Elmer began to chuckle and made some little
remark and I go,"Oh, look! This desk has a penis!" It
was pretty funny. McCormick goes,"What??" and I said,"Elmer
says you're a penis." McCormick was drugged because of his
broken foot- he was sitting down being quiet when all of
a sudden, out of nowhere and with no provocation, he
goes,"Jesus Fucking Christ!" and threw his desk across
the room and hobbled off like a madman. Someone asked 
what drugs he was on and Michaels goes,"Decongestants."
I said,"That'll do it everytime." 
    God, this place is an ASYLUM!!! The walking dead and
the NUTS!!! Last night after I wrote the morbid journal
entry about loneliness I took a quiz in Cosmo (How Decadent
are you?)(it is confirmed- I'm a self-indulgent hedonist) 
and then had fun with the girls in my area. This girl 
who's getting a general discharge and is from Peru
requested I sing the Freddy Krueger song. So I sang,
    One, two Freddy's coming for you
    Three, four better lock the door
    Five, six grab a crucifix
    Seven, eight better stay up late
    Nine, ten never sleep again...
 Some other girls joined in. Pretty damn funny. Then Patterson
(a black chic from New York- she has the best breasts in the
bay and is proud of it- makes me sick!)and I started making
fun of Drill Sergeant Wright, this little evil looking dude
who is called The Midget, The Gorilla and The Bull Dog. But
not to his face. He is meaner than sin. The girl from Peru
said when her platoon came back from exodus Drill Sergeant
Wright said,"Oh, you can sleep in tomorrow. You don't have
to go to breakfast if you don't want to." So they were 
all sleeping soundly when all of a sudden at 7:00 a.m.
Wright's voice comes on the intercom saying,"Get your butts
out of bed NOW! You got ten minutes to get in formation!"
And when they got into formation he goes,"What do you think
this is- the Holiday Inn?"
  We were cracking up. He's such a bastard but it's all so
amusing in retrospect.
   A lot of Aries are in the army. McCormick's b-day is
April Fool's Day. There's an Aries chic in my bay. And I
know there must be dozens more 'cause so many people
around here are high-strung and choleric and funny and
driven.
   I miss alcohol and Subway sandwiches and "Live Through
This" and my clothes and wearing my perfume and TEXAS
in general. I hate South Carolina and the rest of the
Deep South. The people are all a bunch of hicks.
   Now I'm being prejudiced. REM comes from Georgia
and I like Hank William, Jr. But I'm talkin' about
the people in general. Their voices and white trash
attitudes grate on my nerves. My favorite people are
New Yorkers and Texans and Californians. Texans are 
so unpretentious, so fun, so REAL. New Yorkers are
cool and smart and don't take shit off nobody no way
no how. Californians are just so damn easy-going
and tolerant, unlike me.