A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

I haven't gotten off the ship yet, so there hasn't been much to write about. I thought I'd give you an idea of what my daily life is like. I wake up around 8am, check my email (in 2-3 min), and then go work out. Once I get back and shower, I do work until 11am when I can go upstairs and have breakfast. This may be the most consistently enjoyable meal of the day for me on ships. I have some oatmeal with banana, dried pinapple, and raisins, either hard boiled eggs or an omlette (today's was an egg-white omlette with onion, tomato, smoked salmon, and cheese), a whole wheat roll, and maybe some fruit.

After breakfast, I come back to my room to work on the dissertation until 2:00 when I go eat lunch. Usually a salad with some sliced turkey or roast beef or something like that and some soup. Then...back to my room to work on my dissertation. I'll have some sort of sound check at 5:30 or 6 after which I'll sometimes have a "pre-dinner" depending how hungry I am. This pre-dinner usually involves a roll and fresh cheese or some ffruit. It's way too early to go upstairs and eat, but I don't want to wait til 9 to eat again so...pre-dinner.

After pre-dinner, I'll go back to my room aaaand...do a little bit of work, but more likely watch some tv with my dissertation open on my laptop. 8:15 show. 9:15 dinner at the buffet. 10:15 show. 11:30 sleep.

Now that we're headed back to the east side of Mexico, we've gotten a lot more American (as opposed to European) ESPN so there's always football or SportsCenter to watch which has been nice. Sadly, on the passanger movie channels, they're still playing all the movies that were on my last cruise, but some are still worth watching again. There's an odd predominance of Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Garner movies (Blind Side, The proposal, Invention of Lying, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and others I can't think of).

Hope that was of interest. Feel free to post any questions you have about anything. I know Bridgett normally has a few...but it's best to keep her in the dark sometimes...