{"id":1598,"date":"2012-08-30T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2012-08-30T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:44:28","slug":"ill-at-ease-juneau-08272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Ill At Ease \u2013 Juneau \u2013 [08\/27\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I get home, I think I\u2019m going to do nothing but sleep for the first week. I haven\u2019t been this tired in a long long time. Even in month 9 of my ten month stretch I wasn\u2019t this tired. But stress, I suppose, does that to you \u2013 and this has been a stressful contract all around.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t go into details even if I knew them (which I don\u2019t), but the entertainment department on this ship has somehow gotten itself under a microscope. No one is quite sure what happened or why it happened, but we\u2019re definitely being kept under a close eye.\u00a0 It can be wearing, when you are only trying to do your job and you feel that you are constantly looking over your shoulder for someone checking to make sure that you\u2019re doing it right. You develop a constant knot between your shoulder blades and at the base of your neck from the tension you don\u2019t always realize your carrying, and for my part, I start worrying about my contract-end evaluation. Which is foolish, as I know I have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

My little petri dish of a world is somewhat exploding at the moment, so I apologise if I\u2019ve fallen somewhat silent.<\/p>\n

In my own way of dealing with things, I just work, and keep working. I work to the point where my shore-side supervisor tells me to STOP working (and she knows I ignore her). I work on the project I\u2019m helping put together for the upcoming voyages on the flagship (a project which will ultimately be released to the fleet once we get it processed), aaaand, when I remember, I work on the book.<\/p>\n

Some of you may have noticed that the links to the sales page for Where the Waves have been disabled. This isn\u2019t an accident. The book has been temporarily pulled off market while I await professional editing and copyright proofing in preparation for a full-scale public release. When you\u2019re publishing non-fiction for more than just your friends there is a lot of fine print involved, and I\u2019m entering territory where that fine print requires me to be careful. There are only 7 copies of the original release floating around, they\u2019ve all gone to friends and family and you all know who you are. I humbly ask that you keep those copies (with all their lovely flaws) in your possession, don\u2019t give them away, don\u2019t lend them out. Consider them pre-sale copies, sold to a trusted audience for feedback purposes. They are not for general consumption. If you want to know why this is, feel free to ask, I\u2019d be happy to explain, I\u2019m just too sleepy to do it here.<\/p>\n

And yes, I will let you all know when the book comes up for proper official approved sale again (which will be a very big deal, as it will be released to Amazon, Barnes & noble, and possibly brick & mortar stores as well as the fleet itself) when the time comes, but it will be some months yet. Possibly January at the earliest, I\u2019m aiming to have it finished by the start of the World Cruise.<\/p>\n

But all of that is on the horizon…and it feels a very very long way away just now.<\/p>\n

All I want to do right now is curl up and sleep for a very very long time inde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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