{"id":195,"date":"2007-04-02T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-04-02T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:59:49","slug":"somewhere-in-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere in the Indian Ocean&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443430989\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/187\/443430989_fd1498260e.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the ultimate nod to narcissism (and per my father&#8217;s request for more pictures of myself), I present to you: My Dirty Fourth Birthday in Pictures.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was awakened at 0800 by a knock on my cabin door and went out to find a delivery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443427974\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 cookies from my shipmate Shayla<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443430659\/\" target=\"_blank\">all kinds of cards<\/a> and balloons and stuff on my door which I quickly took down because I do all that I can to ensure that the students don&#8217;t know exactly where I dwell. Because they barely let me walk from one end of the ship to the other as it is.<br \/>\nIt was a &#8220;No Class Day&#8221; which meant everyone got to sleep in a bit, so the ship was really quiet. I spent the next two hours roaming around the ship trying to off-load cookies on students, staff and crew.<\/p>\n<p>I received a nice surprise in my Senior Staff Meeting&#8230;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443430795\/\" target=\"_blank\">best ice-cream cake.ever.period<\/a>. But my birthday didn&#8217;t keep us from working. Or rather, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443431055\/\" target=\"_blank\">I did all of the work as usual<\/a>. But there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443430887\/\">lattes, smoothies and hot chocolate<\/a> to supplement the sugar high of the cookies and cake.<br \/>\nAt 1200 hours I had lunch with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443428254\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Boys<\/a>.&#8221; The one to my immediate left in this pic is one of a pair of twins. Joshua (and his brother Gregory) played tricks on me for the first week on the ship before I knew they were twins and thought it was just one overzealous, cutie-pie kid who might need an &#8220;after school special&#8221; talk about &#8220;inappropriate feelings for your elders.&#8221; However they are now two of my favorite students.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I went to my office and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443428326\/\" target=\"_blank\">did some important work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I capped the night off with a meeting with the &#8220;Students of Color @ Sea&#8221; group and much later a get together and\u00c2\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/443431217\/\" target=\"_blank\">margarita<\/a> (or 3) in the faculty\/staff lounge. It was a great day indeed. Thank all yall for your well wishes, e-mails, e-cards and shout outs.<\/p>\n<p>A special &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; goes out to my birthday buddy Sarah Grace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ultimate nod to narcissism (and per my father&#8217;s request for more pictures of myself), I present to you: My Dirty Fourth Birthday in Pictures. I was awakened at 0800 by a knock on my cabin door and went out to find a delivery of 50 cookies from my shipmate Shayla!\u00c2\u00a0 I had all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somewhere in the Indian Ocean&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funchilde-isms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}