Finally! I probably could have written last night, but after something like 36 hours of travel (the direct flight from Atlanta to Seoul took 14 all by itself) and transit, I was pretty close to incoherent… I followed, sheeplike, wherever people told us to go. So I thought about blogging as I collapsed into my bed (and then proceeded to stay awake because it was morning at home), but didn’t get around to it until now.
So, let’s see. The trip here, other than being long and tiring, was pretty comfortable. I ended up getting awfully tired of being confined to my seat on the plane, particularly because the rude man in front of me immediately extended his seat back as far as it would recline, so I was left with about a foot and a half of nose room (I am disinclined to cause another person such discomfort, so I only reclined halfway). After about hour 10, my body started hurting no matter how I was sitting, and my ankles and feet had swelled by the end of the trip. My rear end is still sore today! 
Who’d have thought?
Anyway, we got here just after sunset, local time, and ended up being put in the base hotel. Today, after a walk through the rain to breakfast, we went to the place where we’re going to be working (“we”, by the way, is me and another captain from my office in Alabama who is also an analyst). We filled out lots of paperwork so that we’d have computer access and access to the rest of the base, and battled with the housing people about where we’re going to be staying (that is still up in the air for a few days), and got introduced to dozens of people we’ll be working with for 3 weeks–it was hard to keep them straight–and then left alone to mess with the computer programs we’ll be working with so that we could get used to them. Of course I started falling asleep in the quiet, empty room… Oh well.
But I found the base gym and worked out today! It actually felt good to really move, after a couple days of complete inactivity and too much eating. (When I travel, I can’t keep track of if I’m hungry or not, so in order to fend off low blood sugar and its woes, I eat every time the option is offered, whether I really want it or not. However, this has left me feeling bloated and like I won’t need to eat again for the rest of the month!)
We’ve worked it out that when we switch to shifts, I’ll be working days and my friend will be working nights. He suggested it–I was rather glad because I’m not sure I’d function efficiently on a night shift.
OK, I’m still tired and a little out of it, so this is it for tonight. (So strange to think that it’s early morning back home! Craziness!)
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