{"id":1407,"date":"2012-05-26T22:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T06:40:41","slug":"all-ashore-who-are-going-ashore-vancouver-05262012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"All Ashore who are Going Ashore \u2013 Vancouver \u2013 [05\/26\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The key to overcoming buyer\u2019s remorse is to take your time, take one room and make it your own\u2026.introduce yourself to the house<\/em><\/p>\n

This is also what it feels like walking onto a new ship. This was someone else\u2019s home, someone else\u2019s office, someone else\u2019s life, until this morning when that person walked off the ship and you walked on in their place. You have to have some level of respect for the person who came before you (even if their computer system is so flawed that you have no idea how they managed to make anything work on it), and you have to have a lot of respect for the fact that \u2013 in this case at least \u2013 that person will be coming back.<\/p>\n

Walking into the library on the flagship is like coming home for me, I take over from the person who has had stewardship during my time away, roll my eyes at any silliness that may have occurred in my absence, and promptly fall directly back into my routine. Coming onto one of my summer ships is a different story, and in this particular case? This time I\u2019m the filler. So I wander through the stacks, figuring out which are old friends (my fingertips hitch on Dance with Dragons<\/em> and yank it down to stow under my desk long before any passenger would have known it was there), and which are friends yet to be discovered. An adjustment here, a tweak there, the little things that make you adjust to a new floating home.<\/p>\n

I expected to feel very alone here. Most of my shipboard friends are on a different vessel this Alaska season, and while we cross ports with them twice a week, its\u2019 not the same as being on the same ship. As it turns out (as it always turns out) I know more people than I anticipated\u2026in particular the HRM on this ship was with me on my very first contract what seems like so long ago\u2026it took me a moment to recognize her when she walked into the orientation brief, until she flashed me a smile and said \u201chey Shaughnessy, welcome back.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so the beat goes on, new EM, but old CD (who gave me a big hug when I walked into the office), same library layout, different furniture\u2026and strangest for me on this class of vessel of course- entirely new Party Band\u2026but that\u2019s a different story\u2026.<\/p>\n

This season I\u2019m porting out of Vancouver, a different circumstance for me as prior to this I\u2019ve been lucky enough to port out of my home town once a week \u2013 but everything changes, and perhaps it will be good for me to stare Alaska in the eyes without the possibility of running home to recover. I can\u2019t help but wonder what this Alaska season will bring you see, they say things come in threes, and the last two Alaska seasons have both provided me with dear friends and massive changes\u2026if it\u2019s true that things come in threes, then perhaps something else even more amazing\u2026and more positively challenging, is sitting at the base of a glacier somewhere\u2026waiting for me\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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