Category: antarctica
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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…
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Day Ninety
Ninety daysssssss. Here we are. After sitting at the computer all day yesterday doing data entry that seemed to never end, today was the opposite. I was moving nonstop from the time I got up until now. Exhausted is an understatement. I got up early to make a little progress packing up my old room…
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Day Eighty-Nine
Gawsh. What a day. I’ll start by letting you know what I didn’t do that I’d planned to do…all the things that didn’t get crossed off the to-do list for the day. Gym. Shower. Start moving to my new dorm. Yoga with Adriene. Those all remain on the list, uncrossed. And that’s okay, sometimes that…
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Day Eighty-Eight
Sunday started with restocking Gallagher’s for brunch bar and then heading to the gerbil gym. Six days of exercise and still going strong. Then it was shower time and brunch before heading to the store. Double brunch brought my second favorite brunch item-baked brie. Yum. Tuna and brie in one weekend, double yum. In the…
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Day Eighty-Seven
Today was another good day, but I am not finished telling you about yesterday. After a hella amazing morning at coffee I headed over to Gallagher’s and restocked for brunch bar. Normally brunch bar is only on Sundays, but since it was a two-day weekend for the community it’s also a double brunch bar weekend.…
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Day Eighty-Six
I had my weekly coffee shift this morning. As much as I don’t love getting out of bed earlier than I would for work, I love my coffee shift. I’ve considered not doing it on community-two day weekends, because I know that I won’t have any visitors, but I always forget to cancel it by…
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Day Eighty-Five
With the move over to the 207 dorm building and inventory in the store taking place early next week, well, things be busy-busy. Busy is good and probably the new norm from here on out til I depart for the non frozen world. This evening there were two birthday parties on station. One for our…
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