May 15h- Half Moon Cay

May 15, 2011- Half Moon Cay

                First of all I woke up in the early morning with the one of the worst pains I’ve felt in my life.  I had a flash back to Utah for a second but mainly for different reasons.  Apparently my hands had cramped up in the night and I when I woke up I was literally unable to move them.  My brain was telling them to but I was physically unable for them to move.  My fingers were all twisted in both of my hands and I honestly thought I broke them somehow in the night.  Both hands did this.  I tried to feel around to see if I had actually broken them or something (my thought process didn’t really make much sense after the haze of sleep) but I managed to push them back to a semi normal position and rub them around for a minute.  I moved my fingers around for a minute and realized that I basically had a Charlie horse in both of my hands, at the same time.  It lasted around 5 minutes.  I honestly was ready to dial 911 for the ships nurse because it hurt so badly but I managed to slow my breathing and slowly move my hands (I wondered how I would have picked up or dialed the phone if I needed to).  It was horribly painful.  After I made sure that it was just a Charlie horse and that I had full control over my hands I drifted back to sleep.  I was awoken it felt like five minutes later with the clanking of the anchor.  I jerked myself out of my bed because I honestly thought I was in an earthquake (like I said, thought process doesn’t make a lot of sense from sleep).  After I realized I was on a ship I managed to fall back asleep even when they were still dropping the anchor (it takes a while).  Given everything that happened this morning I knew that I didn’t want to make today a huge day so I didn’t set an alarm and just wanted to let my body tell me what time I needed to get up.  I ended up waking up around 1 (apparently I was really tired) really hungry after missing breakfast and lunch in the crew mess.  I called a few friends and we headed up to Lido to grab some food.  I really hoped that the Mongolian barbeque would be open (port days are the only days we’re allowed to eat there) but they were closed today.  So we had to settle with burritos and ham instead.  The food up on Lido (or anywhere else for that matter) tastes soo much better than the food they have in the mess.  I really don’t understand why.  It’s not like they have a separate source for our food anyway.  After we departed for lunch I went back to my cabin and watched a little bit of Dexter, The United States of Tara, and a bit of Grey’s.  That held me off until dinner and the raising of the anchor.  After dinner I got the Edge show ready.  This was the show that I spent about four hours cueing with Dave a couple of weeks ago starting around 11 pm.  We created a lot of cues, but I didn’t really know where they all went since we created it a while ago and hadn’t used it since.  The first show was a little bit rocky because of that reason.  I missed a few cues but managed to recover and find my place.  Let me say it is TOTALLY weird to take your own cues and not have a stage manager call them, I really can’t get used to that.  I was so hesitant of taking my own cues I even missed a couple.  I told Edge (yes, that’s his real name) that we had a new show programmed and to give me feedback so I could change it before next week if he wanted but he said that it looked wonderful after the performance.  I told him that it was subpar to my standards, because of some timing issues but I’m glad that he liked it.  He’s going to be doing this show once a week for the rest of my contract so I’ll definitely have time to edit and change some things if I want to.  The second show went better and I was able to catch some of my missed cues and even add a little bit of flare to the ones that needed it.  Hopefully I can fully understand this board before the charter arrives.  Oh yeah! We had one guest during the first show that was completely hammered!  Edge had called up a guest for audience participation and he was just stumbling everywhere (drunk + rocky seas = hilarious).  Apparently he was in another one of Jen’s audience participation shows earlier in the cruise so a lot of the audience knew him by name but he was completely making a fool of himself.    Even after his role was done he tried to get back onstage and mess with Edge’s things.  Luckily Edge called him out on it and he darted off the stage.  Jen, who was backstage, was getting ready to strangle him if he got onstage one more time.  Diana and I debated about calling security just to get him off the stage.  Edge handled it pretty well and I talked to him later and he said that I should just spot the guy with the other spotlight and Edge would heckle him endlessly (basically turning his show into a Roast).  I’m glad he has a sense of humor because I honestly wouldn’t know what to do with the guy.  But other than that the show went well.  We’ll see what I have to do for tomorrow and I’m hoping that I can sleep for the most part of the day because that would be wonderful.