Author: annemarieathey
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Day One Hundred
One hundred days, fifty-one thousand words on here, and guess what I just saw…the sun! Well, kind of. I had my coffee shift first thing, which was still busy despite the potential flight coming in later in the day. After coffee, I went back to my room and read and drank coffee for a bit.…
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Day Ninety-Nine
I posted a couple photos on the socials earlier this week. Snaps of my new dorm building and the view from my new back door. In the caption I also noted that I only had two more sleeps until my first sunrise since May. After I made the post it came to mind that the…
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Day Ninety-Eight
Yesterday marked a month of being sober. After six years of sobriety, I decided to test the waters over mid-winter and see if, perhaps, I could drink like a normal person. After three weeks of dabbling on and off, I came to the not so surprising conclusion that I am still very much unable to…
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Day Ninety-Seven
I woke up today to an email from Snacks. For those that don’t know who that is, he was my hiking partner on the Appalachian Trail and we became the best of friends. We’ve kept in touch since we parted ways at the end of the hike in December 2021. After the hike he went…
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Day Ninety-Six
It was around -40F with the wind chill bringing it to -54F today. This is a tad warmer than it has been and in turn allowed for activities at Phoenix (the ice runway) to resume today. Those activities revolve around getting the runway prepped. The flight that was due last weekend will attempt to make…
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Day Ninety-Five
The frigid temps continue. This morning it was -47F with the wind chill coming in over -70F. Still sooo cold. With inventory and the move to the new dorm last week, I broke my workout routine streak and jumped back into that today. I am so all or nothing. Yesterday in my restlessness, I knew…
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Day Ninety-Four
It’s Sunday and I have the day off. I think I may have only had one other Sunday off the entire time I have been down here and that was back in the summer season. For most of the rest of the station, this is their normal day off though. I woke up and got…
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Day Ninety-Three
As the winter season comes to a close and WinFly approaches, all the upcoming change has been heavy on my mind. Some of it, weighing more heavily than I realized, causing anxiety I didn’t know was there. That’s what change does to us as humans, it stirs up fear, and how easy it is to…
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Day Ninety-Two
It’s nice and frigid out, as it always is, but sometimes it’s just that little bit extra. Yesterday morning it was -38F and with the wind chill it was -65F. WE hit -80Brr. As expected, I woke up to a couple emails from my boss back in the States. He sent a QuickBooks update over…
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Day Ninety-One
I woke up to my alarm this morning. I have the only key on station to the storage room in the bars, which also hosts a control panel that the IT and carpenter teams are doing some work on, so I knew I had to meet a couple of people at Gallagher’s this morning to…
The Whole Wide World 