So. Prototype has been going fairly well. I’ve been doing good so far on my casualty watches, although the harder 3rd drill set casualties are on the way for my next two watches.
There’s a roadbump tomorrow though. Thanks to an unfortunate confluence of events, I will be on duty for 16 hours tomorrow. :-(
Basically there is a training event that I must complete before my Final Watch Board, which won’t fit into the normal shift schedule. That’s no problem, we’ll just do it after shift, for a normal 12 hour day.
Then as I am auditing my Qualification Standard, I notice that one of the watches I must stand before Final Watch Board was never scheduled for me. So the choice is either to stand that watch back to back with one of my Engineering Officer of the Watch billets, or get the watch done on my own time. Unfortunately, we could only squeeze that into tomorrow morning.
So now that’s a 16 hour work day. And I have to be there at the beginning of the extra watch to observe the watch turnover. And since I will be on watch the other 8 hours of the day, I need to be in coveralls. And we can’t just stroll into Prototype wearing coveralls, so that means I need to be there even earlier so I can change at Prototype. Yuck.
Although it is nice that I went from struggling to be 2% ahead of the curve to being 13.5% ahead without even having all of my signatures scanned in. :-) I’ll be watch-complete very early compared to other classes, and they’re even trying to push the 8-hour Comprehensive Exam early for us as well to give us extra time off and more time to prepare for the Final Oral Board.