As the title obviously says, there isn’t much for me to say. I’ve been pretty busy the last couple weeks. Work, school, work, school. That’s all I ever do.

I have to say though, I really like school. It feels so good to be back and doing something. Having a goal, a purpose. I kept wondering what I was lacking all those years and now I know. It was direction. You have that goal in high school, even without knowing it. Because all through school you’re working towards graduation. I never thought I’d ever miss school, man was I wrong. I’m doing really well in my math class and that makes me so happy. Math is definitely my worst subject. So it’s really exciting for me to be doing well with it.

We’ve been busy at work too. We just started our cosmetic reset yesterday. Doing that is always a pain in the ass. It takes about a month. Amy and Chris finished Revlon yesterday and Matt and I started L’Oreal last night. Anyhow, I just wanted to give a quick update so you all didn’t think I abandoned my poor site. Expect a new layout soon. (I may actually start working on it now, I already have a header image done).

Marine Cpl. Jennifer Marie Parcell, 20, of Bel Air was killed while supporting combat operations in Anbar province.

Corporal Parcell, a 2004 graduate of Fallston High School, was a landing support specialist for combat operations and was scheduled to leave Iraq on March 1 and return to Okinawa, where she was stationed. She was the fourth Maryland woman to die in military service in Iraq.

Yesterday, several family members gathered at the home of her parents to console one another over her loss. Large yellow ribbons adorned the ranch-style house, and the U.S. flag and a Marine Corps banner hung at the entrance to the driveway.

“I want my daughter honored,” said Pamala Simon, adding that she plans to fly the flags indefinitely.

Corporal Parcell followed in the footsteps of her older brother, Cpl. Joseph Parcell, joining the Marines soon after she graduated from Fallston High.

“She went to his Marine graduation, and that really motivated her to join,” said Martha Benton, the siblings’ maternal aunt.

Brother and sister crossed paths in Iraq last fall, when both were serving their first tour there. Joseph Parcell said he sometimes slipped and called his sister “Boo,” a childhood nickname.

“She was as always upbeat,” said the brother, who is stationed in Cherry Point, N.C. “She was there to do a job, and she believed in what she was doing. None of us want to go to war, but when you see those people and what their lives are like, you want to help.”

While her brother is considering a military career, Jennifer Parcell planned to leave the Marines and attend college when her tour ended in 2009. She had taken several courses online, her brother said.

“Even in Iraq, she was taking a course at University of Maryland,” he said. “Imagine going halfway around the world to go to Maryland.”

Ms. Benton, of Aberdeen, described her niece as a real “go-getter.”

“She knew what she wanted and she knew what it took to get to her goals,” the aunt said.

Helping others was routine for the Marine corporal. She sponsored an African child through a mission charity. And when Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake last year, she and others in her unit were dispatched to the scene. She earned the Humanitarian Service Medal for her efforts.

When Corporal Parcell was home visiting last June, she posed for a picture in her dress blues, with several medals pinned on her jacket. The photo was taken at Mount Calvary Free Will Baptist Church in Aberdeen, where her family plans to hold a funeral service.

“We are honored … to have two Marines in our family,” Ms. Benton said.

I didn’t know you all that well, but you were always very nice every time we did get a chance to talk. I hope you’re in a better place now. And I’m sure you’ve seen all the bulletins on myspace that the class of ‘04 has been sending out for you. Even if you haven’t talked to us in years, you were one of ours and we’ll miss you.

Yeah I am. I’ve been rather busy though. Being back in school and working full time doesn’t leave me a whole lot of time for the computer. I usually hop on for at least an hour or so at night. I just lack the motivation to really write anything on here. I really don’t have a whole lot to say.

I like school though and I’m really glad I decided to go back. It’s a good feeling to know that I have a goal. And that I’m going somewhere. I wasn’t liking that whole being a shit less layabout kind of thing. Definitely not.

Honestly, that pretty much covers my life from the last update until now. Though, I haven’t had my English class yet. It keeps getting canceled. Which is starting to piss me off. I need to know if I have the right book for it or not. Because if it isn’t right then I need to take it back. I am not going to have my mother waste $80 on a book I don’t need. That is not cool.

Though I think as soon as these CDs I’m downloading are done I’m gonna crash. I’m fucking exhausted. I feel like I could sleep for a week.