I do not normally develop a people allergy until much much later in a contract. But lately? I cannot quite seem to bear being around too many people. I come home from class, close the door behind me, brace my back against it and take a very deep deep breath, and dread going back out again.
I’m not quite sure where this is coming from – I didn’t have this difficulty last cruise. It’s somehow, something about these particular people. Something is setting my teeth on edge and I don’t know precisely what it is.
I think it’s possibly because there has been a rush of people coming to me with internet questions. The last cruise I worked was a Grand, so I was able to dodge most of the internet questions because we had someone stationed at the old library desk. But that’s not the case here, and in a lot of cases these people have nowhere else to go, or don’t think to look anywhere beyond where all the computers are. The thing is, I’m not supposed to deal with the ‘net anymore, I can help you get to the main login screen but that’s all I’m really qualified to do – ending up with people complaining to me about it just makes me start having some rather nasty flashbacks.
That said – or rather, that aside – there is something to be said for walking into your office and seeing a miles high glacier towering outside your office window, and a huge waterfall cascading down from a mountain high enough that if you were standing at the bottom of it you’d have to lie flat on your back to even think about seeing the top.
Yup, that’s my office view this morning, I have difficulty wrapping my head around it sometimes – and an equal amount of times I have difficulty wrapping my head around the idea that most of the world goes to work in the morning and just sees an office building or a road…
Edgy teeth aside…I still know I am one lucky woman…