Today we're taking a snow day- Tom's office is closed and I didn't feel great yesterday so I figured I'd take it easy- not worth hauling ass into the office.

Snow Day! Whoo!!

I'm trying to remember what our schedule was. I think it was Monday at sea, Tuesday afternoon in San Juan, Wednesday St. Martin/Maarten, Thursday St. Thomas, Friday and Saturday at sea, Sunday morning back in Port Canaveral. Then all of Sunday at the Orlando airport, because my plane, which was scheduled for takeoff at 1:20, didn't actually board until 4.

Oh! Found a little "local" restaurant right on the beach in St. Maarten that had a vegetarian choice right on the menu! It was rice and peas with some steamed veggies, but at least they made the effort. And steamed veggies are way better than overly boiled ones. (Our cab driver had a rant about how people from other places will boil vegetables and then throw out the water, and how this is the totally wrong way to cook vegetables -- they should be steamed.)

I was just saying that on our cruise (Bahamas/St. Thomas/ St. Maarten) the best food - by far - was on St. Maarten. Something about being European, we joked.

Ok. Still uploading, but I love this picture of Ellie: [link]

When I came in this morning, I discovered I had lost my normal radio staion setting on my clock radio here. This can happen if it gets bumped or if it is just "in a mood". Anyway, I fiddled the dial to something rock-ish and got to work. Well, apparently it is not my normal station. I am currently being encouraged to "Shake, shake shake. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your booty".

Oh, and Royal Caribbean cruises are very good for vegetarians. I generally had lunch in the buffet and dinner in the sit-down dining room, and only once had to get the pasta and tomato sauce option. (That was the night when the vegetarian option was quiche, and I don't eat eggs.) I met all the British passengers at the beans and tomatoes section of the breakfast buffet. (Why haven't beans and tomatoes at breakfast caught on in the States? It's really yum.)

The last couple times I went on cruises my only big complaint with the vegetarian menu was that the soups all had a chicken stock base. My companions didn't get why I could instantly tell. Um, greasy. It has been about 7 years so perhaps they have improved. Although clearly they have the same band playing.

OK, I'm pissed.

I'd cc'ed an incoming student on a message where I was forwarding some scheduling concerns of his to the instructors, as a way of assuring him I'd passed them along promptly.

They didn't notice and started doing "reply all" and saying things that weren't appropriate to discuss in front of him, as it were. And somehow this is MY fault for cc'ing him and not theirs for not paying attention to the headers. I just got a lecture on how in the future I shouldn't cc, but should instead forward a copy or whatever. Which would be FINE if it had been in a tone of "because we'll mess up again" instead of "you screwed up."

Grr.

Trip pictures are here: [link]

Puerto Rico pictures start here: [link]

Why haven't beans and tomatoes at breakfast caught on in the States? It's really yum.

God, I love that standard British breakfast. Minus the eggs, because I hate them, but beans, tomatoes (grilled or not), bacon, some sort of breadstuff...

Now I want to go down to one of the English places near the beach and order it.