I am still in my good mood. Thankfully. I hung out with my casino peeps last night. It was such a good time. Except for when Robert told me the WOSRT story. I almost cried. The stories I hear from the people I meet on the ship is insane. Long story short…it came up talking about how people label the people they are involved with… He was dating this girl on a ship a few years ago. They got on great. Well she died one random day from a heart attack on the ship while they were in port. He described how close they were and I swear it was the worst story someone could tell. It was intense. You know all ships have a mortuary on board. There are actually people who come on cruise ship to die. To have their last days be great. There are spirits on board as well. I hear stories about that from a few people. I actually heard someone in my room like a couple weeks ago. And if you were ever in a cabin there is no way to mistake someone in your cabin if they are not there, and no one can just randomly walk in. It’s creepy.
Stephen, and I are good. I am getting why he is the way he is. All the port days he didn’t do any new edits. Anything new on the DVD I edited. I should be pissed. I should be like what the fuck I’m doing all this work blah blah blah. But I don’t feel that way. I do all this cool stuff I shot and edit a video. I came here to do that, and that’s what I’m doing. He did go on the snorkel tour, but he always does. He didn’t do a tour in Hilo. He just used his old Summit of Meana Kea. He didn’t get any new footage really. He is using my style of shots. I noticed that the other day actually. I’m glad I am influencing him. He didn’t do anything new in Honolulu. We just threw in the general surf video. He didn’t do anything in Kaua’i either. And Lahaina he went snorkeling. NOTHING new. These are different passengers so they wont know the difference. But he is depressed. It’s not him being bitchy. He is like seriously struggling with a thought of what to do with his life. I understand this whole-heartedly. He wants to work in movies like me, or be a professional camera scuba diver. Doing this on the ship where we have to shot mostly events is killing him. The sea days are killer just because we don’t the cool exciting stuff. The one thing I don’t like shooting is the Captains Welome aboard party. It’s so boring.
It doesn’t help that his two closest friends on the ship are leaving soon. One this cruise the other the next. He’s really worried. Seclusion is on his mind. He said to me “ what am I gonna do read books?” it was a funny conversation, we laughed and that but it’s a serious issue. The joy of the job can only take you so far to be honest.
That’s one thing you have to get used to. People are always coming and going. It sucks cause you get close to people, and they have to leave. When the band Equinox leaves, and Robert leaves after this cruise I have no idea who I’ll be hanging with. I don’t like hanging with the photo team cause they stick with themselves too much. Too much drama. You just gotta deal, bounce back, and make new friends. When they leave new people come to replace them, and you could be even better friends with those people.
He also wants an extension on this vacation time. They are short Videographers so our vacation time is shorter than normal. He wants to go backpacking through Thailand. And he wants more than 5 weeks off. I totally understand. In order to get an extension you have to go through all this paperwork, and managers, the whole nine yards. The big boss of Videographers has to approve it. It screws up the rotation if you get an extension. He doesn’t know where he is off to next. Couple more weeks he’ll find out. He says he’ll quit if he gets something he has already done. I understand that too. That won’t happen to me yet, but it could in a couple contracts. I don’t think I’d do Hawaii again. I wanna go somewhere cool next contract. I don’t want the Caribbean though. It’s a 7-day run, in the same place for the whole 6 months. Watch me get that run. I’ll find out in two months where I’m going next.
It doesn’t take long to REALLY see the big picture on how things work on board.
I leave the ship May 29th. The ship will be on its Alaska route. I’ll get to be there for two weeks. Which is enough for me J I’ll be flying from Seattle. I’m exciting to visit there.
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