{"id":3381,"date":"2014-09-17T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:32:37","slug":"cheers-to-survival-sydney-nova-scotia-09162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Cheers to Survival \u2013 Sydney, Nova Scotia \u2013 [09\/16\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dreamlike-reality-fantasy<\/a>To say this has been a hard week would be an understatement, as I\u2019m sure some of you have picked up \u2026for those of you on my facebook account, most of you know that whenever the profile photo changes to that cute little clockwork ballerina it\u2019s not really that great a sign.<\/p>\n

But, thankfully, the storm seems to have passed and the clockwork gears have once again started to soften into flesh and blood. Politics can get extremely ugly in shipboard life, mostly because \u2013 as my manager pointed out to me this afternoon \u2013 we can\u2019t go home. This is<\/em> home. If you live less than ten steps from the person you\u2019re having a problem with, there is going to be a fair amount of tension in the air.<\/p>\n

And there was. The situation has been resolved as best it can be, though I suspect deep down no one was truly happy with the outcome \u2013 or with the whole mess in general \u2013 but at least it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

All of which led to Amras and I sitting in the sunshine at an Irish pub in Sydney, Nova Scotia; munching on Irish pasties (SO many memories of England! Mmmm\u2026.cornish pasties) and kalamari and talking out the last of what has been an incredibly stressful 72 hours for both of us. One of those roving afternoons where you talk about everything and nothing and come away from the table with somehow far fewer knots in your shoulders and less tension in the pit of your stomach; where despite the fact that the tab is way higher than anything you ever could have expected, it\u2019s worth every penny just for the feeling that you\u2019re away from everything. From the politics, the drama, the red tape, everything.<\/p>\n

And there was one comment which we both looked at each other and said \u2018I have the feeling that\u2019s going to end up in a blog\u2019\u2026which now is utterly and totally lost to my swiss cheese mind, but I\u2019m sure it will come to me eventually. Though possibly too late to blog about.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I swear that they could base a fictional television off of the real drama that takes place in cruise ship crew quarters\u2026and no one \u2013 not one single soul who hasn\u2019t been out here and lived it for themselves \u2013 would ever believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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