The musings of Bill Jagnow: "On a lighter note, I now have a small desk in the platoon office. This concession was made to me because of the duties I'm taking on as the administrative liason or whatever for my platoon. I decided to spice things up a bit by bringing a small, stuffed monkey to live on my desk. This monkey has not been received well, to say the least. Every morning, I have to contend with the aftermath of my colleagues' favorite new pasttime: 'hide the monkey.' I have found the monkey in the refrigerator, the microwave, fed halfway into the printer, and with his head stuck in a filing cabinet, as well as in a variety of compromising poses. I asked my platoon sergeant why he hates the monkey so much. 'Because of the way he looks at me,' was his reply. Admittedly, the monkey does have kind of a haunting, accusative glare in his beady little monkey eyes."

I love Bill Jagnow.