update - warning: this may bore you to tears

Well i've started the turnover to my new job. now, in addition to the average of 8 hours a day i spend on watch (4-6 hours at a time, for example, one day i'll have watch 23-03, then again 12-18, then 03-07) and all the regular meetings and briefs and stuff, I'm trying to learn my new job, get to know the new division, take my friend mark's (whose job i'm taking as ASWO... see an earlier post where i define that) disorganized paperwork and trying to organize them because apparently he cant, and so on. Oh and every day or two we have an ASW scenario where for anywhere from 6-12 hours at a time i go to combat and direct ships and aircraft to prosecute submarines even though i have no idea what i'm doing and it's a total shitshow, and i never really learned how to do this so i dont really know how to do it better until i learn the right way. This may sound like fun to some of you who like the glamour of the military, and yes, fighting submarines is kind of cool, but trust me: it is not fun. Maybe it would be if I ever had any idea what was going on, if I got more than 3 hours of sleep at any given time, and if I had hope for progress... but right now i'm a giant pessimist. Anyway, my new boss just told me that 45 minutes of sleep is as restful as 8 hours, so i'm going to go sleep for 45 minutes and probably end up proving him wrong. on a final note if anyone is actually reading this please dont worry about me, i just had to get my bitching out. I cant bitch and complain to my friends here because some of them have it even worse than i do, plus it's just annoying when people like me whine all day long.