John Heald's Blog

Recently we lost a man whose hard work and endeavors were the backbone on which this company was built.

Here then are the tributes and memories of some of those whose lives were brightened by the incomparable Mr. Zonis.

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Butch Begovitch is one of our young up and coming CD’s who many of you have told me is the “one to watch” and certainly his exuberance for the job has shone brightly here during our Cruise Director conference. However, Butch, as I said yesterday and like many of his colleagues is what is known apparently as…………………metro sexual. And so, purely for investigative reasons for this here blog thingy of ours I asked Butch what I would have to do to become…………..metro sexual……………………and what I heard was not pretty.
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I realize that during the last few days I have been moaning a lot about being tired and I promised myself that I wasn’t going to mention it here on the blog thingy today………….but obviously that promise was bollocks because as I sit here…………in my underpants…………..at 11:50pm …………….I have but one thought……………bed…………….actually that’s bollocks as well because I have a thought for Megan Fox’s bottom as well…………….but surprisingly it is not as strong as the thought I have for putting my head on the pillow and snoring my way to blissful sleep. Today’s conference started at 8:15am and lasted until 6:30pm.
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One of the many things we discussed today at the annual Cruise Director Conference was giving each Cruise Director their own Facebook page thingy so that they can stay in touch with the guests who want to keep in touch with their favorite Cruise Directors. Many are already doing this but doing so on their own personal Facespace book thingy which some expressed concerns about as their pages include photos of them maybe doing strange things with a solid gold ship on a stick. It was asked how many would like to have a company sponsored facespace page and while many said yes…………some looked on in horror……one CD had never even seen a Facespace book page.
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I have been traveling and flying and packing and unpacking and changing cabins and flying again and taking my laptop out of my bag and taking my shoes off an putting them on and hosting dinners and doing interviews and performing naming ceremonies and freezing my bollocks off in New York and reading huge books and meeting famous actresses and trying to talk to all the people who want to talk to me and missing my wife and daughter and using the raspberry and not using it when the satellite went down and forgetting to take my diabetic pill and remembering that I am married and not to stare at the Latvian dining room hostess’s bottom and doing what Gerry Cahill wants of me and what the marketing people with beards want me to do even though I have no bloody clue what they are talking about………oh and amongst all that my hemorrhoids have been itching like crazy.
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