Shifting Gears – Venice, Italy – [09/24/2013]

Young_Diana-MMVSo here we go. Shadow swung by the desk this morning to finish the last of her paperwork and say goodbye, and as of now is probably on her way through airport security for her flight back to the states; I’m back to my standard longer days and early mornings and my workspace is once again solidly in my hands.

And to be honest, I’m pretty happy about that. Working with a partner is fantastic, it makes your life a lot easier as far as the workload goes, but it can also lead to the occasional crossed wire and miscommunication, and the management on this particular ship is alert to that kind of thing. If something happens to go wrong now at least I know what I have and haven’t done, which hours I have and have not kept etc etc. So yes, my life is about to once again become mostly about work and sleep – but I honestly don’t view that as a bad thing, I’ve become pretty decent at balancing it out over the years.

The controlled chaos of embarkation day continues to swirl around me like so many colours of the rainbow. You grab naps when you can, and make sure you eat a larger breakfast than usual because the chances are you’re not going to be able to grab lunch, and inevitably someone always calls you in the middle of your cat nap because they can’t find someone else/something else/forgot to ask you something etc etc, but whatever, you’re kind of used to it. Embark day is something like a carefully organized play, we all know the script, we all know the lyrics, it’s just a matter of playing it through to the end. I slid a note under Amras and Alasse’s cabin door this morning saying that I would be lucky if I managed to see them by 10:30 as ‘you know how embark day is’.

The library is – at the moment – spotless and straightened, though I’m sure it won’t take long for the 600 or so CVG guests to make short work of that. My computer is finally working properly again so I at least have a functioning check out system for the duration of the cruise (we won’t go into how challenging it was last cruise when I had no such thing…well, I had half of one).

As for me? There’s a reason I’ve thought of myself as a daughter of Diana for many years…some huntresses can take down anything.

Even dragons 😉

In short? Bring it.

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