Just when you think it’ll never come, it’s on top of you. It’s difficult to describe the controlled chaos of yesterday, let alone today. The yearly turnaround from the GWV to the PanCan is something that almost has to be experienced to be truly understood. It’s not just that almost the entire passenger base changes AND that over half the crew changes out, it’s a shift in lifestyles. No matter how much some things may drive us crazy, over four months we have all – guests and crew alike – gotten used to each other’s quirks. For lack of a better way of putting it – we have each other well trained.
And as of 11:30 this morning, all of that changed. 1300 new passengers made their (always somewhat wide-eyed) way onto my floating living room.
The biggest difference being that now the gremlins are – supposedly – completely under my command. With the position change over now complete I’m now officially in charge of the internet café as well as the library itself. It’s a lot of work, but I keep telling myself that it’s nothing I can’t handle. Though it does feel a bit…wobbly. Not the system itself, that’s working fine, just the weight of all that responsibility.
That said, it’s not as if I have much of a choice, people are depending on me, and went people are depending on me I must rise to the occasion.
Calling on my beloved books, perhaps I should just adopt a ‘Zozie d’Alba’ approach to it: “F**k you, I’m fabulous’
A toast to new challenges.