Day 54

I was released from isolation on Tues morning. Doc still isn’t fully sure what it was, though he’s pretty sure that it’s not scarlet fever (without the fever) which is what I thought it was. The antibiotics I was taking may have toyed with my immune system and made me hypersensitive so it may have been an allergic reaction to laundry detergent, the treated water, or anything. Then he said that I was just in isolation for no need. Turns out it wasn’t chicken pox… they were just jumpy about that because they’ve had a few cases recently. Grrr.

There are now three of us that worked together at the Cleveland Play House working on Carnival ships: Devon, Liz, and me. How silly. It’s strangely nice to have an outside friend on a ship who I can see every other week when we’re in port together. Somehow connects me to my outside life. Unfortunately, Devon and I don’t cross paths.

Chris lent me a book called Origins, which is about the cosmos – the Big Bang theory and the thought processes behind how the universe works. It can be pretty technical in places, but isn’t written like a textbook. It has a sense of humor peppered in that checks in to see if you’re paying attention and helps break things up a bit. I’m a bit overwhelmed at the moment by the nitty gritty of the math behind it because I get a little lost in terminology, but it sparks some pretty neat conversations with Chris. And it makes me wonder why we learn in school only about our solar system and not more even about what galaxies, supernovas, stars, nebulas, and what all of these things are. This book is really opening up my perspective. I feel like when I look up at the sky I know a lot more about what is out there and how it works, rather than it being a big scary mystery. While it’s strange to know that the way our solar system works now is not permanent, that slowly everything is changing (and I haven’t yet gotten to the chapters that probably talk about the future), it’s nice to kind of understand how things in space change and why. I may not be able to do anything about it if there is a possibility that Earth is threatened, but I’m sure there’s also a chapter on that and what is predicted to happen and if there are plans on how to save Earth/keep existing.

I see hummingbirds every time I go to Roatan. Love it!

Love and physics,
Jamie