I've just been kind of floating along lately. Sometimes I land for a minute or two and think I should shake myself out of it. This is life, and it's all there is; so why coast? There's minutes, hours or the odd day where I can really connect to a moment and be 'in it' long enough to feel good or bad, but otherwise the majority of my time is spent ( Read more... )

Today I live in a house with two close friends and a black cat. Things have mostly petered out since I returned from Hawaii. Although I had a feeling this would happen come winter, it's still vaguely disappointing. There are 168 hours in a week, and I spent 60 of them working at a burrito restaurant, another 60 or so sleeping, and roughly 10 hours ( Read more... )

So I haven't had the chance to update what with the awful internet speeds here. However, things are pretty fantastic. I'm sitting with a group of varied ages singing stand by me in the crew mess. Today my friend will got a tattoo I drew. I've been designing a lot of tattoo's out here. I'm on my hour break for night shift. Going back in at midnight ( Read more... )

Week 1 has been fun so far. The flights were pretty long, but I made it here safe. Met a nice musician girl at LAX who was on her way to Mexico. The past week has just been classes and exploring. So far we did CPR, First Aid, Personal Survival, Emergencies.. all sorts of stuff. Oh, and there's a GI outbreak onboard, which I guess is pretty ( Read more... )

So did myspace.com just give up? It hasn't worked for me since the 'new improved' version started. Not like.. 'Oh I don't like it', I mean nothing actually is showing up past the login page. Oh well, haha. If I still had the e-mail account I used to start the page I would have deleted the myspace by now anyhow. It's kind of a bummer that there are ( Read more... )

NCL called me last night with a flight date for my STCW training. I'm leaving for Honolulu on the 15th ( Read more... )

Finding employment when you actually need employment is a bummer. It's weird, when I have cash I tend to have endless opportunity to find more cash. But here where I'm marking time till I leave in march, I can't find employment to save my life. Really, it would save my life. Eventually I'm going to run out of my money stash. Meh. The problem arose ( Read more... )

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Well I did some research and discovered that everyone who gets hired at NCL goes through active hold and that it usually lasts 4 months. Its a bit of a bummer, but I'm glad to know I'm not actuall being blown off. Unfortunately it means I will have to resume job hunting ASAP and find a decent job I won't mind quitting come March-ish. Lame. I might ( Read more... )

All of my appendages are rubber from the painkillers I took in hopes of sleeping before sunrise. I usually find that writing in this state is just bliss. Not because it will be prolific or even coherent, but because even trivial words roll like raindrops, and sentences become fluid. Lately I've replaced interaction with inspiration. I've been ( Read more... )