still absorbing the easter island experience! wow!!! another sea day, and as we travel west we gain an hour each day… love the extra hour in the day! i think we’ll gain a total of 5 hours this week, and at some point we’ll be crossing the date line… time traveling, i like to call it… the easter island port song went over well, and they made me play it 4 times, whenever new people came in; that’s a record, i think! that was last night, and i had to encore it again tonight, and the writing teacher asked me to read it at our group today… i guess that one will make the highlights cd before the end…
so my theme tonite was highlights from the 60’s, on the softer side, of course… i did some bacharach, some pretty beatles, etc… they served free wine to celebrate the end of our code red scenario (yay!) and a few people enjoyed that… quite a lot, actually... maybe too much, as i was even heckled a bit loudly last night for the first time in my career here by one individual, but i let it slide, knowing the reason, and just kept going forward with my show gently deflecting until they went away (looking a little green, really). i will be asking my sharp-tounged cruise director what i am allowed to say in such a situation if it should occur again, and i know he will have something appropriately withering, yet unfailingly polite… i have a hard time with combining those qualities; i’d be good at the scathing part, but don’t know how to package it politely so i don’t get in trouble, so i will enlist his aid… hope i don’t need to use it, but will happily do so if i need to… everyone else was great, and we had some good sing-alongs and a lot of fun people last night, too. you really can't take poor behavior personally, tho it is always confusing to me (like, what did i ever do to you? i'm just here doing my job trying to have fun with you guys!)... the moral of the story: know your limits, people, and be nice to the piano player!
i miss out on some of the evening crew activities because i work late, so i missed the crew bingo/game nite and raffle… oh well… i am trying to put a crew piano bar show together with the human resources activities person, a late nite set after the gig from 12-1:30 in the crew mess hall with all of the stuff i am not allowed to sing upstairs (dirty version of margaritaville, etc…) – last contract a friend and i did this and it was lots of fun… some folks are already asking when it will be – we secured permission, and we now just need a date… i’ll keep you posted… we are now heading into the lovely south pacific, better dust off “bali hai” and “some enchanted evening.” missing my babies and everyone at home and afar… hope you are all well! -df
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