{"id":502,"date":"2011-09-29T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2013-06-17T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:44:38","slug":"bound-to-be-rough-water-at-seatrans-pacific-crossing-day-1-09272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Bound To Be Rough Water – At Sea\/Trans-Pacific Crossing Day 1 – [09\/27\/2011]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You\u2019re just not going to catch a break\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you mean?<\/em><\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t you going straight into the crossing to Russia\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be fine\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

This was an exchange with one of my co-workers during the last few weeks of Alaska when we were dodging 40ft seas and hurricane force winds. I knew what they were talking about of course; you always hear that the crossing to Russia is notoriously rough. What I didn\u2019t realize was that for some reason, this season, my usual ability to maintain a working relationship with Mother Ocean was going to fail me. Completely.<\/p>\n

Green apples and ginger ale for this gypsy\u2026again.<\/p>\n

Maybe I just haven\u2019t recovered from spending too many hours working on Deck 10 in high seas in Alaska?<\/p>\n

In all honesty, I suspect it\u2019s because I\u2019ve not had a chance to rest much since boarding. As you may have guessed, embark day was a bit frantic, made more frantic by all the work L and I have to do in the library to get it back up to running standard. I\u2019ve been falling into my old habits, working through my breaks, skipping lunch, skipping dinner \u2013 and with no party band on this ship to distract me at night, well, all there really is during 7 straight sea days is work. The good news? I\u2019m sleeping really well these days!<\/p>\n

My Event Manager is already threatening me with isolation if I keep overworking myself. I had to promise him that I wouldn\u2019t go without my breaks anymore\u2026<\/p>\n

The good side of things is that I have my own room this season. My own guaranteed-never-to-be-shared room. Pictures up, crystals out, diffuser making the place smell like a candy shop. I\u2019m home. Well, home for now anyway. I suppose some would find it strange that we unpack our homes and set them up at the beginning of every contract \u2013 but you get used to it after a while.<\/p>\n

We land in Russia on October 5th<\/sup> (which happens to be my birthday), I imagine by then we\u2019ll be quite pleased to see dry land, even if it is slightly cold and damp! But Russia is one that I have never had the chance to see- one more patch to sew on my laptop bag.<\/p>\n

If we can just get through the crossing of course…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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