I found out the hard way last night that celestial navigation is no fun. I hope to God that I never have to use celestial navigation as my primary means of navigation while in the Navy, because it is way too frustrating. We had two chapters of navigation homework to do on the combined coordinate system along with celestial navigation and and all that stuff. I started at 11:30 pm, and I quickly realized it was going to be a long night. I then decided to send out a group message and I got together with about 8 other shipmates so we could work together, but this stuff is just impossible to do if you have no experience in it. So we ordered Papa Johns pizza and gave it our best shot. Around 3:00 am we finally finished, only to wake up at 6:45 to get in uniform and head to navigation.

I also finally got my combat boots that fit me properly and my service dress blue jacket a size larger so it will actually fit me. It's been half a year in the making, so I'm excited to finally get the proper sized uniform items. I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised by how warm my service dress blue uniform is when I wear the reefer coat, scarf, gloves and ear muffs. The wind chill hasn't changed at all, unfortunately, and we are expecting more snow in the next few days, so with negative temperatures as the windchill and more snow, I'm glad to have the winter components of the uniform. Money well spent.

I'm also getting an insane amount of work hours this week... between last night, today and tomorrow I'm getting about 23 hours of work, and at $14 an hour it's darn good money for a college student. Especially when my work consists of sitting in an office doing my homework, eating food and making sure nobody dies during the conference. That's pretty much my job.