{"id":4750,"date":"2017-10-04T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:57:42","slug":"early-days-at-sea-10042017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Early Days \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [10\/04\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nerdy_girl_by_kishishiotani-d49xsog.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nerdy_girl_by_kishishiotani-d49xsog.png 580w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nerdy_girl_by_kishishiotani-d49xsog-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/>Working a Grand Voyage as a workshop teacher is very different from working one as a librarian. My days are considerably shorter, and the stress level? Definitely lower.<\/p>\n<p>While the guest expectations remain high, this is by far the most relaxed long voyage I\u2019ve ever worked; at least so far, it is early days yet.<\/p>\n<p>My fear for this cruise was that I couldn\u2019t handle the passengers, but as it turns out, I needn\u2019t have feared, because the guests that I was concerned about do not seem to have returned. Or if they have, they have chosen not to attend my classes (come to think of it I seem to remember most of those guests being \u2026users of a different computer system, I wonder if there\u2019s a connection there). The guests that have remembered me have been glad to see me and enthusiastic about the new path my life has taken, and it\u2019s always nice to have that kind of support.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only me that has lighter hours, Amras is head of what is now the show band, meaning they play only the mainstage shows; as such they actually have time off. For the first time in ages, he and I actually have nights off together, we can <em>go<\/em> to shows, we can sit and watch movies and not have us be up until 2am. Yesterday we actually sat and watched a magician show and didn\u2019t have to worry about running off anywhere. Hey look at us, acting like normal 9-5 type people, who\u2019d have thought right?<\/p>\n<p>I still have my crazy earrings, fun socks and entertaining hairbows\u2026and I carry my office keys and schedule in a Disney villains purse\u2026now, if only I could work up the nerve to wear my hello kitty Doc Martin\u2019s to class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>hmmm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working a Grand Voyage as a workshop teacher is very different from working one as a librarian. My days are considerably shorter, and the stress level? Definitely lower. While the guest expectations remain high, this is by far the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-fire-ice-2017","category-grand-asiaaustralia-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","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=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}