{"id":216,"date":"2007-04-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=591"},"modified":"2007-04-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T06:00:00","slug":"im-saying-words-in-lunchbox-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m saying words in lunchbox time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my last 48 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Sat 11am:<\/i> playing shuffleboard on deck 11 as the ship pulled into Nassau<\/li>\n<li><i>Sat 1pm:<\/i> having a mojito de naranja on Paradise Island<\/li>\n<li><i>Sat 6pm:<\/i> worrying that our favorite shipmates hadn&#8217;t made it back on board, since they were last seen at Senor Frog&#8217;s*<\/li>\n<li><i>Sat 11pm:<\/i> wearing a toga and leafy crown at the Roman Bacchanal<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 1am:<\/i> saying goodbye to our favorite shipmates and cruise staff<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 8am:<\/i> arriving in the U.S. once again<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 10am:<\/i> riding an airboat in the Everglades<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 11am:<\/i> holding a baby alligator<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 1pm:<\/i> hating Ft Lauderdale International Airport with a fiery, burning passion<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun 8pm:<\/i> wandering around downtown Atlanta<\/li>\n<li><i>Mon 1am:<\/i> racing to Matt&#8217;s as fast as Miguel could go<\/li>\n<li><i>Mon 10am:<\/i> realizing that work is, in fact, the exact opposite of a tropical island<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>I am perhaps a little disoriented today.<\/p>\n<p \/>And another list! Since last Sunday, I have been on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a cruise ship<\/li>\n<li>four airplanes<\/li>\n<li>an airport taxi<\/li>\n<li>a lifeboat doubling as a tender boat<\/li>\n<li>a catamaran<\/li>\n<li>an airboat<\/li>\n<li>a tour bus<\/li>\n<li>a Dominican taxi-van<\/li>\n<li>an <a href='http:\/\/www.stthomasskyride.com\/' target='x'>aerial tram<\/a><\/li>\n<li>two water taxis<\/li>\n<li>a monorail<\/li>\n<li>a subway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This may explain what I and my fellow-travellers are experiencing particularly intensely today: <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mal_de_debarquement' target='x'>mal de debarquement<\/a>. How dramatic-sounding is that? I spent a lot of time sort of dizzy and wobbly on the ship due to both waves and vertigo, but I expected that; what I did not expect was to be land-sick. My cube is spinning and I walk like I&#8217;m drunk.<\/p>\n<p \/>Wait. Maybe I&#8217;m just having flashbacks.<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ll be back here in a day or two, hopefully with some photos to show. Right now, downloading them all seems an insurmountable task. Also, I&#8217;m going to the Twins opener tonight with many of my favorite people on earth, and after that, I&#8217;m seriously hoping Matt has no intention of getting up off the couch, as I plan on spending the rest of it laying on him. A week was a painfully-long time to be apart from the the boy I love, which is why he&#8217;s coming along on all future vacations.<\/p>\n<p \/>And so you know, our cruise exceed my expectations in every way. I have nothing but good things to say about Costa, their crew, and their ship. I&#8217;d tell you to book your cruise right now, but they&#8217;re headed back to Europe on Sunday. Maybe next year!<\/p>\n<p \/>Also, I guess my interview is in this month&#8217;s <i>Metro<\/i>, but I haven&#8217;t seen it yet! If it sucks, don&#8217;t tell me.<\/p>\n<p \/>Jenni<\/p>\n<p \/>p.s. Anybody who can tell me how to make the ascii ntilde validate in xml\/rss wins $5. I can never get it to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my last 48 hours: Sat 11am: playing shuffleboard on deck 11 as the ship pulled into Nassau Sat 1pm: having a mojito de naranja on Paradise Island Sat 6pm: worrying that our favorite shipmates hadn&#8217;t made it back on board, since they were last seen at Senor Frog&#8217;s* Sat 11pm: wearing a toga &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=216\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}