Tag Archive for ships
T-minus 4 Days
There are all kinds of reasons to have weird dreams on a ship: imminent travel, moderate drama, the rocking of the ship, sleeping in a room that’s been occupied by a rotating population of people since it was built ten years ago… The other night I had a dream about being trapped in a cave, […]
Counting down already. T minus-8 days…
It sank in this week, how soon I’m leaving, and I’m gripped in equal parts by premature nostalgia and crippling apathy. There was a crew party last night on the open deck, as high up on the ship as you can go. It was gorgeously breezy, and there were so many stars! I mostly sat […]
San Juan Day
I like the wordless Calvin and Hobbes strips where each of the panels shows a different moment from their day. I wanted to do that here with my Saturday because, transportation difficulties aside, San Juan is always a perfect day of food, drink, painting, phoning home, and rushing back to the ship just in time. […]
St. Croix
I know it’s not the official day for a new post, but here’s an illustration of my Sunday in St. Croix, where I uploaded this week’s cartoons. I was looking at Sarah Glidden’s blog about her watercolor process–for How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, which I heard a lot about this fall–and […]
Jazz Night in the Piano Bar
This is the current horn section on my ship: collectively the best I’ve worked with, I think. One of the perks, I guess, of a crappy economy is that better and better musicians are taking ship jobs. Once a week we have a jazz jam in the piano bar. I guess it’s a compliment to […]
First foray into coloring…
If you need the translation, it’s, “Is this your girlfriend?” “Um, no, just a friend…Um…Uh…” I think if you get on a ship, you have to automatically change your status to “It’s Complicated.” Anyway, the crew bar is the smoking bar, so I usually don’t go in there, but it has its moments. Anyone who […]
Feeling the Pinch
On land, I’m always confused when people hesitate to crowd into an elevator. I guess it comes of regularly sharing a work elevator with a dozen people, towel racks, dessert carts and carved fruit. This ship seemed fairly chill for the first week, but an all-crew meeting yesterday reminded me that we are working for […]
Ups and Downs of Cabin Living
This observation of Sarah Slean’s music comes from my new friend Ingrid, a Colombian lounge singer. She and I know the same movies, but different music, so we spent an afternoon with our iPods and a headphone splitter. Ingrid introduced me to Sade. I pulled out Hedwig and the Angry Inch. And so on. So, […]