Cruise, Day 7

Sweating my cleavage off in Ecuador. Buying souvenirs so hopefully someone wants them. Tomorrow we are at sea, then going through the panama canal, then maybe the next day we will be in Colombia I think. I am probably going to try out my new diving skills in Colombia if its cheap enough. Watched the KU game last night (was in the gym for over 2 hours trying to work myself hungry). They showed the games in the cinema and brought in nachos, chicken wings, etc. so inbetween workouts I recovered any calories that were lost. Did anyone besides me hear the announcers talk about people on cruise ships watching the broadcast? They listed four or five but not my ship. First they said ¨we know people are watching all over the world, so welcome wherever you are¨ and I said to the TV ¨I´m watching in the pacific ocean, just south of the equator!¨ and then he read my mind and mentioned cruise ships.

I just booked a ticket to New York for April 14 (will spend one night with ex-boss Heather in Miami along with Matt Parry) to visit David O, see some sights there that I haven´t yet, and then go over to Connecticut to visit Danae who just had surgery and will be in hospice care recovering for awhile. Might try to get to DC and visit Julie as well. Then I will most likely fly to KC on April 21 or 22, see the sights of Olathe East baseball and choirs, then fly to Fort lauderdale on April 29 to catch my april 30 flight to AK. I have a southwest credit to use so the three flights total will cost me $233. I always have commitment issues when I´m in an internet cafe and the pressure is on to get things done. Plus I am sweating in lots of places like my elbow cracks, my eyelid cracks, my knee cracks, my stomach cracks, and other cracks and I am hungry which makes me anxious being several blocks away from the free food supply.

On a sidenote, I suppose I am running from a sedentary, routine, permanent, boring lifestyle which would make me unhappy, discontent, fat, envious, bored, restless and mean. I figure my black sheep status is always in limbo, being neck and neck with my sister on issues like moving to Alaska, not being married, not wanting children, not having a career, not going to church, drinking alcohol, etc so I might as well partake in spastic and chronic travel without reason. (my other options are getting a tattoo (too much commitment), doing drugs (expensive), getting pregnant (results in a child), living with a boyfriend (wouldnt be opposed if they have the rent money) which brings me to the point in my run-on sentence, I´m thinking about voting for Barack and trying to convince my black sheep apprentice to do the same. Basically I´m curious and I think the country needs someone with new ideas who isn´t afraid to change things up. Feel free to start lecturing...now. I promise I´m listening. In other news, on the positive side, in my life I try to be nice to everyone I meet, I put a lot of effort into my friendships, I manage my finances better than most and I never dread going to work. And I think those things make my life pretty successful and justified even if a bit ridiculous at times and incomprehensible to some.

So, what else is new, you probably want a good story at least for reading all of that boring stuff. Well, today I met an older couple from Syracuse and we went to a nearby town to buy a Panama hat for the man and drove around in a cab to take a look at the town. They also tried calling home becuase their first grandchild was due 3 days ago. I translated for them, they paid for the cab and on the way there we saw some sort of accident with people standing around and a fire truck and I saw a man scooping up guts from the road. True story. He had gloves on and a bag and it looked like intestines or maybe brains.