63 more days 'til I come home! (and yes, I'm counting the hours and minutes, as well.)
I'm missing so many things from home. Family and Friends...Movies and Music...Milk and Cookies, Chick-fil-A and Arby's...
I also miss Pastor Johnny Hunt and Sunday mornings, driving and visiting places on my own free will, and two-ply toilet paper (and on that note, being around people that are young enough to control their bowel movements).
As of April 10th, we lost and gained 700 out of 1100 crew members! Now, nearly everybody's gone from the Grand, and I'm pretty much all alone. The only people I know that are left onboard are the Production Staff, the Dancers, and the Shoppies. Come April 25th, they'll ALL be gone as well.
It's all starting to wear on me. And since nearly everyone onboard is new, that means that I have to promote myself all over again to all of the crew (so they can, in turn, promote me). I also have to schmooze the right officials to get my special privileges like "anytime-dining" privileges, the key to the Officer's laundry, and an access card to the back office, so I can check personal business e-mail anytime I want. (I still don't have comped Internet)
Oh, and to top that all off, Camila and Vanessa just left, as well. Both brilliant and wonderful personalities that I've enjoyed the company of for the last several months. But now, I'm nearly back to square one with onboard relationships. (For those of you who don't know, shipboard relationships expire faster than the milk from Wal-Mart.)
There IS some GOOD NEWS that comes out of all of this, and that is that, new crew makes for better morale. Better morale makes for happier passengers. Happier passengers make for a less-irritable computer instructor. A less irritable computer instructor makes for less keyboards busted over passengers' heads.
And all in all...What a Wonderful World. :oD
dear scott,
it's easter.
where are you? :(
Missing you, Scottie!