{"id":1634,"date":"2012-09-28T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2012-09-28T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:40:36","slug":"shaking-off-the-dust-seattle-09212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Shaking off the Dust \u2013 Seattle \u2013 [09\/21\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christine Comyon – Unguarded Moment<\/p><\/div>\n

The first day on a new ship is always a little unusual, but the first day on this<\/em> ship, isn\u2019t. This ship is home. I have come home. When I first started with the company I heard people talk about ships being \u2018theirs\u2019, the concept of a home ship is unofficially established \u2013 the thing is, it takes time to find one. I was convinced when I first started that I would forever be a 10-deck ship girl, but here is where I find myself, on this little royal lady of a ship. The flagship has a quiet digintiy, and as always, she welcomes her own.<\/p>\n

The team has changed slightly this cruise, but there are at least a half dozen people that I recongise, including a few that I didn\u2019t expect. The DJ is an old friend from my stint on an even smaller ship what feels like a very long time ago. I suppose there are some cases when it\u2019s a good thing to have the past catch up with you.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re still unsure where they\u2019re going to have me live. At the moment I\u2019m on A-Deck where I expected to be, with the roommate I half expected to have. She\u2019s a really nice girl and for once I find I wouldn\u2019t mind sharing my space if it weren\u2019t for the luggage! Two women bring a lot of bags on a Grand Voyage, so space in our little tiny cabin is a bit of an issue, especially since I can\u2019t unpack as they could move me at any time. If they do, it will be to a nicer room \u2013 something I didn\u2019t expect or ask for, but am grateful for none the less.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s times like this, when I lie here on my little bunk bed listening to the engines grind and whir to life underneath me, when I realize\u2026oh my god\u2026how did I get here? I remember sobbing through my last viewing of It\u2019s A Wonderful Life because I couldn\u2019t believe I was ever going to go anywhere. I was going to be just like George Bailey, stuck with all these dreams that came to nothing, never leaving the ever-tightening confines of my hometown. I hated it, and I was bitter about it, but I was sure that was what life held for me despite people telling me otherwise\u2026<\/p>\n

That same girl who was the one thinking she was going to be stuck an old maid closing up the library\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, I am still single, and I am closing up the library once in a while\u2026but I\u2019m doing it while contemplating whether or not this will be the season that I see the Forbidden City and the Terracotta Army, and whether or not I\u2019ll get a good photo of Mount Kilimanjro at some point along this trip\u2026<\/p>\n

How\u2026.did a little homegrown girl like me get dropped into all this?<\/p>\n

What on earth did I do that was so impressive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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