We had a group come onboard and had to move a bunch of shit around for them which kept us pretty busy, and then we just spent the last couple weeks installing our new cast.
There were a lot of photos I posted to Facebook... and I think they all made it except the ones from Joe's going away party... currently re-trying to upload those...
Joe resigned, which is why I'm still on the Majesty instead of the Enchantment. Joe's replacement is Romy, who was going to be my replacement... Romy is such a sweetheart. Not long after Joe left we traded out sax players; totally gonna miss kicking it with Blair (we'll toast you when we go to Chili's after the next movie we see @CoCoWalk... lol) but Ryan seems cool. Don't have any pics of Ryan up yet, but he kinda reminds me of Scott Pursley in the face, and in his expressions, but he's way shorter than Scott.
Really going to miss my first cast! Nothing like finding a little piece of home at sea knowing that I shared RCP background Michael Seager. I still think of Andy laughing at me every time I grab my headset. And all the love from my perpetual costume changes Kyle and Brianna... though I have to apologize to Michael Woodard: no one will take me seriously about the Fro Handover...
Loving my new cast too! Don't know the girls too well just yet, but the guys are awesome and should make the rest of this contract bearable since it seems like everybody else is leaving me.
Danny signed off today. :'-( He signs back on to this same ship three days after I sign off. Utter shame cause he's one of my favorite people and the only one who'll understand when I say: I will NEVER look at Bengay the same way EVER EVER again. *le sigh* Danny's replacement Mike seems cool enough. Another SoCal boy like Corona... he'll be here until Danny comes back, so we'll sign off in the same week unless the universe decides differently...
Adam leaves next monday. *le sigh* And he won't quit talking about all the travel in Europe he's got planned. I don't think he spends more than 36 hours at home before flying off to Estonia, or Amsterdam, or Iceland... I've stopped paying attention because I know I'll just be stuck here in the Bahamas on the Majesty with no guarantee that I'll ever see these guys again. It's not that I expected to get to work with the same crew for my entire contract... but I didn't expect to change out EVERYBODY one right after the other... Adam's replacement Nandi seems all right though quiet. She's always in the booth which tells me that's where she's comfortable, and I can respect that.
The week after Adam is gone Tapia leaves. His replacement is apparently a friend of our fill in Cruise Director... we'll see how that goes...
The next week sees our PM David going home... which I'm terrified of. He works very much the way I do as far as stage managing... And I've been shadowing him for about a month & a half now too. Kinda on the job training in hopes of a promotion... So I don't know how much of that will continue when his replacement arrives. But David will be back in September, so that will be okay.
My biggest complaint about the whole thing is how well this group works together! They just shouldn't be split up at all... lol. That and I feel comfortable around them which makes it an easy environment to work and live in... I've put some thought to extending my contract so I can still be around when Danny and Raf sign back on (which is seriously three days after I'm scheduled to sign off.) That and if I did extend I'd get to work on at least one if not like four charters, and it would be nice to learn what a charter is like in a comfortable environment... Not to mention extending would mean my vacation would start just before blackout dates which would mean I'd be home for Christmas and New Years...
Basically I'm loving being on the ship and the people I've been working with, which makes it hard now that quite a few of them will be gone at least for a while. Its crazy how quickly you become close to people here and how difficult it is to let them go when they sign off. Maybe it wouldn't be so hard if I knew I would see them again, but the world makes no promises... and what an utter shame that is...
ALL MY LOVE,
I'll try to be cheerier the next time I post,
~Elle~
