{"id":4068,"date":"2015-12-08T23:48:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2015-12-08T23:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:48:31","slug":"midway-somewhere-over-south-america-12072015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Midway \u2013 Somewhere over South America \u2013 [12\/07\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"plane\"<\/a>It is absolutely no secret how much I hate flying. If mankind were meant to fly, the S\/he would have granted us wings. It is not so much the concept of shooting through the sky in a metal tube that unnerves me; it\u2019s the undeniable fact that I am trapped<\/em> in a giant metal tube that is shooting across the sky. If I think about that too much I go insane, hence why I have started investing in onboard internet wherever possible, the $20 cost is worth it for my piece of mind, at least as long as the battery power on my laptop holds out, which, if I\u2019m only doing word processing and not something like watching a movie, is usually a decent amount of time.<\/p>\n

It feels like a lot longer than yesterday since I left the ship. But debark is debark, it\u2019s always a bit surreal. You\u2019re walking out your cabin door at the same time that your replacement is walking in most of the time. There\u2019s a flurry of trying to get everyone\u2019s luggage in the right place, and by the end of the day it feels like your fingers may never work properly again as a result of carrying said luggage to the north pole and back (not literally obviously). And then bang, you\u2019re in a metal tube flying you home. Somewhere in between worlds\u2026like you were never there at all.<\/p>\n

IT\u2019s eerie in some ways, knowing that your shipboard life is continuing merrily along without you. The machine goes on, you change the gears out every few months when they get too worn through. At least I left my replacement with an office that was in good shape. I got my final report card, the written comments were good, but standard. It was what my supervisor actually said<\/em>to me that mattered,<\/p>\n

Shaughnessy, I have seen you up there, it is busy. <\/u> I mean insanely busy, and I know that because I had to do it once \u2013 please don\u2019t ever get sick again! But seriously, you go above and beyond. The company will never know what they did when they got rid of the internet managers, because all they know, and all they care about, is that they saved the room and they\u2019re making the same amount of money they were before. And it was foolish of them and it wasn\u2019t fair to you, and we all know that, the only reason they never will is because we have exceptional librarians like you who stepped up and did the job even though it wasn\u2019t fair to you and it never will be. You do so much more than we could ever expect you to or would ever ask you to. They may never appreciate it, but it\u2019s very very important to me that you know that we<\/u> do.<\/em><\/p>\n

I almost cried. You don\u2019t get that kind of appreciation very often in any line of work, let alone this one.<\/p>\n

But freya does it ever feel good to be heading home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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