Serpent in the Glow

Watching Predators Below and Politics Above from a Ship Off Taiwan

I have been on this ship in Taiwan for over two weeks now. I will be heading home in just over a week, I think. Jet lag seemed to work in my favour for the first few days. I thought I’d hit the ground running. Waking up at two, three, then four in the morning as it wore off. Starting the day with water, an hour of reading the project engineering documen…