{"id":2774,"date":"2013-12-06T01:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:52:48","slug":"but-from-dusk-till-dawn-as-the-clock-ticks-on-victoria-12052013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"But From Dusk Till Dawn, as the Clock Ticks On \u2013 Victoria \u2013 [12\/05\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"weesmallhours\"<\/a>I don\u2019t know if the fact that I haven\u2019t been sleeping lately comes from simply never fully coming off of ship schedule (where your entire social life pretty much has to take place after midnight or you give up on having one) or something else\u2026but either way, sleep does not seem to have been my friend this vacation, my nightowl tendencies have definitely reared their head.<\/p>\n

Thing is, nights make me think too much\u2026and remember too much, and then I spend the rest of the night trying to undo the resulting tangle. \u00a0And sometimes there are a lot of knots in that very very fine gold chain\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll notice that the countdown has gone back up on the right hand side of the blog. It\u2019s that time again\u2026already.<\/p>\n

Flight details came in this afternoon, thankfully (and in an instance that almost never happens), they\u2019re not only flying me direct to San Francisco, they\u2019re flying me first thing in the morning (and when I say first thing I mean oh-dark-stupid-in-the-morning-when-the-rest-of-the-sane-world-is-asleep early, my parents are not pleased, and the buses have NOT started running that early this time of year so there\u2019s not much I can do unfortunately). The upside of flying out that early is that I get a whole day in San Fran, which I\u2019ve not been to since I was just a kid\u2026hopefully I\u2019ll be able to meet up with friends and do some long necessary catch-up, and then get in a good night\u2019s sleep before heading back to the flagship\u2026<\/p>\n

And yes\u2026I have to pack, and since this is a flagship contract, that means packing everything from a flapper dress to a sari and the airline they\u2019re flying me on charges for ALL luggage\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where half of my mind is\u2026the other half is on the fact that hey, it\u2019s Christmas! And I\u2019m home! And that\u2019s awesome! And we still have to finish the tree and wrap presents and I still<\/i> have to make that peach pie I\u2019ve been planning on attempting for months now\u2026I have Christmas cards to address and mail (first time in ages I\u2019ve actually attempted such a thing)\u2026<\/p>\n

And in between all that, I\u2019m trying not to think about the people I miss, and the people I will miss in the next few weeks, trying not to think about the occasions I\u2019m missing and the ones I\u2019m heading toward, trying to look forwards and not backwards\u2026<\/p>\n

And all the other millions of things that bounce around in your brain in well\u2026the wee small hours of the morning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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