I was right, it is strange. Incredibly strange. I am not used to being on a ship where I’m not constantly on someone else’s schedule and rarely having time to do anything except watch a lot of reruns. But this, this is different. No one telling me what to do, no one really caring what I do. Eating when I want, wearing what I want. And being able to work on my writing on my laptop in the upstairs lounge while I’m watching the sunset.
As a result, I’ve managed to get five pages written on my novella in the last twenty-four hours. To put this in perspective that’s more than I’ve written in one go on this particular piece in the last three years.
Colour me amazed.
Today is a sea day, so I spent most of it updating my computer games on my new laptop and seeing whether or not I could send my Mongol warriors successfully against China in Civilization 5 (much to my dismay the game keeps crashing, apparently a common problem, so I’ve learned to save often). Yesterday I crawled my way through immigration (Which goes a lot faster when you’re in the passenger lineup!) and met up with Amras in Seattle to explore Pike’s Street Market, with it’s juggling stores and fortune tellers (apparently, I’m going to come into an inheritance from a wealthy relative, not sure how that’s going to work as I have no rich relatives to inherit anything from!) and rambling book stores (where I caved and picked up a copy of Fahrenheit 451 because as terrifying as that book is it feels like it’s time for a re-read).
So here I am…Alaska bound again, in a rather different context than I ever thought I would be. So I wonder what the glaciers have in store for me this time…
Being productive on R&R time is a bonus. I hope you’re enjoying it, even though it feels weird.