A: In their sleevies.
Q: Is it difficult to enlist in the Army?
A: When you're a vagrant ex-hippie trying to land a job that requires security clearance... yes!
Apparently The Man frowns on multiple name changes, experimental drug usage, and couch-surfing for years at a time. Most of my friends are anti-military and have been less than encouraging. No one understands why a sensitive artist-type would do this. I don't fully understand, myself, except maybe to chalk it up to Contrarianism.
Now, amidst all the flack I'm getting from friends and family, I'm also getting discouraged by the very government I've volunteered to serve! Not directly, of course... I haven't yet run the full gauntlet and been rejected. It's just that the process thus far (the countless questions I find difficult to answer, given the life I've been leading for the past ten years) has left my freakishness in stark relief, and brings me to doubt my own qualifications for Representative Of Our Great Country and Bearer of Sensitive Government Information.
I just keep telling myself I have to represent, yo. But if they tell me I can't blog, I might have to reconsider.
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