This is all good prep for advanced military waiting:
- for chow
- for mail call when deployed
- for your relief to arrive and relieve you on a frigid quarterdeck
- for hot water
- for the feeling of being clean again after taking an unlimited hot water and time shower
- for your rack and no alarm set
- for news of next set of orders
- for actual orders
- for the HHG shipment to show up
- in line, everywhere
- for online portals to update, for anything
- for the promotion lists to come out
- for the command selection list to come out
- for the halfway-point of a deployment
- for that interminable transit down the pier until you get that post-deployment hug from those awaiting you
- for the ship to stop moving quite so much so your chow stays in one place and the galley can serve hot food again
