Maji's blog: "Yup"

Theres a lot of things to love and hate about my job. Spontaniety...I love when there is a smooth transition between think and do, the satisfaction of the leap. Its very important at my place in life.  Unsettledness...the essense of nomadic readiness, and having to rearrange your life and plans on a moments notice to accomodate sometimes, the price.

My love for irony blends those 2 together to usually make it worthwhile.

Had planned to ride out of state to spend the weekend visiting my mom, my brother and few others. My moms bday falling on Easter this year, I felt compelled to spend the day with her, literally a double holiday.

Yesterday at work, talk of a pending site survey suddenly turned green light, and the customer has requested that the inspection occur this weekend due to ship's availability/activity shutdown, etc....nomadic readiness.

Irony...the ship, of all the ship's in the world it could be, is the exact same boat that I just took a cruise on over xmas holiday.  So as the guides are contacting me to familiarize me the layout last minute, & Im instead telling them where things are at. Theyre like "ohhh, well, umm awesome, we'll meet you there!"

The trip down was set for Saturday, with me coming back Saturday night. I intially rejected that itinerary, citing they are already cutting into my holiday plans for Sunday, and theres no way Im going to fly 2000 miles and then get back and jump in the car and drive another 300. So being as thats shot, they just as well book my flight out on the redeye Sunday, then I can walkabout on my own after the survey.

They adjusted that with a whole new flight plan, which they took upon themselves to go ahead and purchase before our review. The flight they bought had me connecting in Atlanta with 35 mins to get on the next flight. The host company that is requesting for me to do the survey rejected that, I didnt even get a chance to, citing that was  too risky and they couldnt chance my incoming flight being late, and with planes closing doors 15 mins prior to takeoff, that left me 20 mins to disboard and get to the other plane. Even if by some miracle it was on the same concourse, and I got to the plane, chances are my luggage would not.

So round 3,...evidently they couldnt get another Saturday flight that would make the survey in time, soooo ....surprise, now they have me leaving today, plus rental/hotel now, no doubt to close the deal once and for all.  ....nomadic readiness.

So just booked flower delivery for Mom, to hopefully pacify my absense. And now Im scrambling getting ready to head to the airport, which I was already warming up for anyway, knowing how things go.

So anyway, looks like Easter in downtown Miami....I can do that. Wait...I AM doing that.  ....*winks*..Spontaniety. :)

Update Sat morning: My point of contact onboard has contracted food poisoning, fainted and gashed his head. So looks like Im gonna have to go it alone for the ship survey. Atop that apparently we cant board til 1100, so I got to chill this morning. Hotel brekky was packed, noisy, not my thing...so I went walkabout and found a nice quaint lil bakery w/sidewalk cafe just a block away. Wasnt disappointed. :)

Cant remember who all is down here, but if ya think of someone from our mutual friends, let em know Im around, and I will check back after Im done today and see what happens.