It’s hard to believe that I’ve already been here nearly two weeks. It’s gone so fast. Of course, that could be because of the new job duties, which keep my days so much busier that by the time you turn around twice your day is over.
Things are definitely settling out though. IT has worked out the worst of the glitches and roadbumps in the new system, and that’s making my life much easier. Slowly but surely the guests are starting to realize that there’s only so much I can do as the front line person, and I’m managing to find a bit of a better balance between the library (as in the books) and the computers. It’s still going to be an even busier life than I’ve been used to, but at least now I’m not stressing out about it all as much as I was say….48 hours ago. Everything has ups and downs, and this waterlogged life of mine sometimes has more than most.
Deep down I think a lot of my rollercoaster emotions the last few days have been simply because I miss the summer. I kind of feel like a little kid who had the best summer vacation ever and is now suffering through the torment of the first few weeks back at school!
But eventually I’ll remember that I’m a smart girl and I actually enjoy school 😉
That said, I don’t think I’ll ever really get used to seeing lush tropical jungle outside my window on Boxing Day! The fact that I spend so much time in warm climates these days has apparently thinned my blood and I don’t take the cold nearly as well as I used to, but that doesn’t mean that my Canadian brain doesn’t still rebel at the idea of a sunny Christmas. It just feels so strange!
At long last it seems that I’m sleeping at night again, perhaps my system has finally adjusted. Or at least started to.
That said, I’m still not getting off the ship much. I’ve been to this area of the world before and I’ve already added most of the requisite stickers to my suitcase and stamps to my passport. So I’m trying to just relax and save my energy for the upcoming world cruise, which is barrelling down on us with the power of a speeding locomotive.
I’m still reading a lot. At the moment I have three books that I’m half way through: The Sugar Queen which is an old favourite that I’m mostly just skipping through to my favourite parts of, The Kingmaker’s Daughter – heavy duty historical fiction that sometimes I don’t have the brain power to focus on, and Women in the Wild which I keep at my desk in the office and which is having the effect of kind of making me want to add climbing mount Everest to my bucket list…go figure.