This has been an interesting cruise. It has been the last for our current cast of singers and dancers and therefor, the handover to the new cast who joined last Brisbane. The old cast has been here 7 months now which includes my entire contract to date. If you count the 6 weeks of rehearsals prior to that, they've been at it over 8 months for this one contract. That's an eternity to me right now. They have been a great bunch of people though and they've helped make our corridor an interesting place to live.
I've met the new cast, and talked to both of the singers, Nicole and Dave, at some length and they're all pretty cool. Looking forward to having them around. It'll be a challenge for the new cast this cruise as they'll be finally performing all the shows that they've been learning and rehearsing all this cruise in addition to doing all their cruise staff duties for the first time. I suspect there will be alot of naps taken next cruise.
As the old cast leaves, so with them go our other teen staffer and Roxy, one of the 2 JACD's, leaving about 6 of us from the entertainment staff that I began my contract with. They whole staff have been a fantastic group of people. They've really made this place what it is. Of the 6 remaining, I'll be the second last to leave in just over a month now.
In other news, they installed five industrial Maytag Washer/Dryer units in the crew laundry about a month ago. These are identical to the ones in the laundries in all the dorms at Miami and in my last two apartment complexes. I thought they were completey idiot proof as I'd never actually seen one broken down. I was wrong. Between the idiots using them and the repair men who can't read the manual, only the schematic, 3 of the 5 washers are now out of order. What a friggin disaster. I'm giving them one more shot but I'm probably just sending my stuff the other laundry and paying the couple dollars to have it done. This sucks cuz I finally got some dryer sheets. Oh well.
I'm on IPM tomorrow so no internet time for me. After next cruise we have a 3-day cruise which is just a cheapo to get us back starting 7-days on Saturdays. We don't even stop anywhere. It's just a get drunk and use the casino cruise and it won't leave til 8pm or something so we'll have almost a full day in Brisbane. YAY!
Also had a bit of fun this week. Because of the Norwalk virus and what not, it is a disciplinary offense not to report vomitting or diaherrea if you're a crew member. Something I ate the other day didn't agree with me and I got written up for not reporting it til 12 hours later. Ask me sometime about the lock down procedures for people with stomach flus on ships.
That's all for now. Time for dinner and a string of shows.
peace
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Who would have thought someone could be wrote up for something like that. I guess I shouldn't be surprised after all the camps I've worked. I hope you are feeling better now.
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