Category: 100 Days of Darkness
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Day Forty-Three
Happy Winter Solstice! Last night, at 2:57AM, the South Pole reached its maximum tilt away from the sun. It’s Antarctic Midwinter. We are halfway between our last sunset and moving closer and closer to our first sunrise on August 20th. There are 144 of us here at McMurdo and 17 down the road at Scott…
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Day Forty-Two
I often feel very cut off down here. Not just from the non-frozen world. Cut off in a spiritual sense. It’s difficult to articulate what I mean, because it’s a feeling. Or lack thereof. In the non-frozen world I feel like I am more regularly having those cup-overflowing, heart-so-full feelings and those moments are far…
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Day Forty-One
A year or so after I got sober, I heard the line ‘people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.’ I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit lately. About the people I’ve met down here and my relationships with each of them. Wondering who belongs in each of those…
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Day Forty
I slept so well last night. It was glorious. It’s not often anymore that I can just lay down, close my eyes and go to sleep so when it does happen I am very happy about it. I slept in this morning as well, so I started the day fully rested and I am telling…
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Day Thirty-Nine
Sunday, again. Last night’s Pride party was pretty entertaining. I stayed up and out with the crowd until 1:30AM. I even danced(!) Sometimes it was awkward as could be and sometimes I felt completely free. I suppose that is progress. There were a handful of songs that I could just close my eyes and pretend…
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Day Thirty-Eight
Last night’s darts were a success. We played in teams, with the same partner for all three games in the tournament. My partner was Ed, the Engineering Maintenance Supervisor at Scott Base. We won all three games and I threw pretty well. In the middle of the evening, the Scott Base radios went off telling…
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Day Thirty-Seven
I’ve been back in the can’t fall asleep until after two in the morning zone, which is extra yuck. It was around two when I looked at the clock for the last time and then my alarm went off just before eight. I’d arranged to join supply in the warehouse for the store this morning.…
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Day Thirty-Six
I spent most of today in the station craft room trying my bestest to make a mask for the upcoming carnival/masquerade themed mid-winter dinner. The end result was more of a feathered headpiece with a secondary detachable maskish type thing, lol. While I was rooting through all the supplies in the craft room, I found…
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Day Thirty-Five
Struggling to come up with words today, so this is probably gonna be random AF. I’m also in rare form. Like that first sentence wasn’t a clue in. My workday ended in the store, with my friend Marty spotting me as I made multiple attempts at doing a handstand. I’ve had the urge to do…
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Day Thirty-Four
Busy day in MacTown. It started off with a very windy beverage pull this morning. So cold. Then after the lunch time hours at the store, I popped over to our fuels department and helped unwind over a mile of fuel hose while the fuelies checked the line for any damage. This is one of…
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