7 more days and it is the 90 day mark. a time when i will start talking with the head office about my next cruise. yep, i'm game for another contract.
over all, it's pretty great.
yesterday was odd, though. i'm recovering from a sinus infection. yesterday was a day of intense coughing and other forms of phlegm management. that wore me out physically, on top of clocking about 12 hours yesterday (gettin them hours!). when i hit the hay at midnight, i fully expected to be asleep before the lights were off, but i couldn't fall asleep.
and this is a perk of ship life: i rolled down to the bar, hung out with friends (dethroning the current foosball champions with the help of martin, the guitarist, against mike and chris - chris is my former partner in foosball victory, so that victory was even more sweet). then sat outside with mike and his guitar until 3:30 am.
we made up a song about our new friend, percival the bird, who was hanging out on the forward mast, "scoot scootin" on his perch and sometimes gliding with us. he was the size of a small dog.
and then i started reading "moby dick" now that i've finished learning about the origins of the universe (which was awesome).
i am enthralled with the writing already. huzzah melville! that kept me going until 4:30am.
i haven't figured out why i was so restless last night.
perhaps it was the funk i was in most of the evening. it wasn't until chilling out with mike that i finally hit reset.
4 hours later, back to work!
my big project right now is replacing the cat's paw on the soles of the new casts' new shoes. they came with some slippery crap. nothing like the smell of contact cement at 9am.
love and late nights,
jme
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