Just over a week into the Academy and I’ve learned that shining a pair of boots takes quite a bit of work. Layer after layer after layer of polish, seemingly without end, are applied to the leather of the previously-ok-looking (to a normal person) boot in quest of the ultimate goal: my own reflection. I’ve decided to work on my boots bit by bit, doing a few dozen layers each night rather than sitting for three hours in a row (which, outside of class and work, I just don’t have). Having been marked off on the first inspection for not having shined boots, it is my goal to have boots that are so shiny they’ll make the squad leader’s head hurt.
