{"id":4694,"date":"2017-09-04T23:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2017-09-04T23:27:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:27:03","slug":"uniformly-un-uniformed-anchorage-alaska-09042017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4694","title":{"rendered":"Uniformly Un-uniformed \u2013 Anchorage, Alaska \u2013 [09\/04\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s the computer age. Nerds are in! \u2026They\u2026are still in right? ~ Willow Rosenberg<\/em><\/p>\n

Last cruise I was wearing company greys and feeling for all the world like I\u2019d stepped out of a classic 1940s movie. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the uniform is stylish and it actually looks very pretty on me, I still wear it often after 6 o\u2019clock, but one can only wear a pencil skirt so much before it gets a bit awkward.<\/p>\n

We got the new Microsoft issued uniform shirts this home port. Which means that in the \u2018blink of a cosmic clock\u2019 (thank you Quantum Leap) my day-to-day look has rather changed.<\/p>\n

Out with the grey, in with the geek.<\/p>\n

Pair the polo with dress slacks, patterned chuck tailors, brightly coloured themed hair decorations (today\u2019s is Cheshire Cat stripes) and themed socks (which you can\u2019t see because yeah, slacks, but I know they\u2019re there\u2026this afternoon\u2019s were Sailor Moon themed) \u2026ha! All hail to the uber geek.<\/p>\n

A job where I get to be in uniform and still actually feel like myself.<\/p>\n

Rather a far cry from the drab little mouse who sat behind a desk all day wondering how she was supposed to be smiling all<\/em> the time.<\/p>\n

Yup, I like it here. Yup yup yup.<\/p>\n

I actually only realized today that I have added all these little personal touches to my uniform. Don\u2019t make the mistake of thinking I don\u2019t look professional, far from it, most of this is stuff you\u2019ll never notice unless you really are the type to observe little details; and, as I said, I still wear the full formal uniform at night.<\/p>\n

Anchorage today provided the Cheshire Cat hair clip, and the Sailor Moon accessories, along with two Disney mini-posters now added to my cabin wall, and a tiny G1 MLP figurine that made me squeal with geeker joy just because it is<\/em> G1 (trust me, that\u2019s rare). What can I say, Anchorage has a Hot Topic. I have my weaknesses after all.<\/p>\n

At least I only got one<\/em> mystery G1 figurine (which ended up being Sundance, which means I\u2019ll have to go back and get another one, because I really want Firefly\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the computer age. Nerds are in! \u2026They\u2026are still in right? ~ Willow Rosenberg Last cruise I was wearing company greys and feeling for all the world like I\u2019d stepped out of a classic 1940s movie. Don\u2019t get me wrong, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-fire-ice-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1dI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}