Sopapillas

Our MS-II year has begun. We are gaining a whole new sympathy for the whiney MS-IIs before us. It's hard not to notice that a whole different kind of love permeating Lecture Room D than this time last year in Lecture Room E.

In case there was any question, and despite some rather creative accounting, Alpha Three was crowned Honor Platoon, with Eddie Dolomisiewicz and Rebecca Hardy as the official Kerkesner Rockstars. We do have to give a whole lot of credit--there were plenty of other rockstar achievements in Kerkesner adventures outside of our little circle of victory. It's worth getting them to tell their stories as well.

Ours got some level of quasi-closure at Guapo's today. But, of course, it wasn't any sort of resolution. Getting the promised reward just made it even more clear that we had never been in it for the reward.

This is about where I have to admit that Major Burns was right all along.

Thanks, sir.

For those who are wondering, the Alphaholics, and all of the original platoons, will get to stay together for Bushmaster. Hopefully, they'll consult with Major B in the intervening years and do some tweaking. In between, we're back to being regular medical students. Maybe they'll give us breaks occasionally and let us storm a building somewhere with water guns. The library would probably be a bad idea, just because of the whole water thing, but I think the cafeteria would be a good place to simulate urban warfare. We could just ambush some ethics discussion group to capture a known insurgent leader.

LRC laser tag anybody?