Category: antarctica
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Day Sixty-Three
Day off, yay! Also, it’s me Mum’s birthday-Happy Birthday Mumsie! I called her yesterday and wished her a happy birthday from the future, since we are a day ahead down here. Sadly, the phone lines aren’t working today so I can’t connect, but I am glad we got a quick chat in yesterday. Miss you…
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Day Sixty-Two
I received a couple more questions from the one and only Francesca. Where does the poop go? The poop goes across station in overland poop pipes to the wastewater treatment facility. It is macerated upon arrival and then goes through the appropriate tanks before being flushed out the backdoor and into the sea. Any leftover…
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Day Sixty-One
The days are kind of starting to really blur together and time is going by so quickly. Knowing that the season is coming to an end, I’ve started getting a little anxious about redeploying. My supervisor back in the States reached out with my off-ice date earlier today. October 16th. I arrived on October 17th…
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Day Sixty
We’ve got a little weather going on today. It’s currently -20F and with the wind chill it’s -47F. Out on the sea ice and at the airfields, it is a condition one, which is the most severe of our three weather status’. Here in town it’s a condition three which means business as usual, so…
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Day Fifty-Nine
I made a placeholder for this post yesterday, putting the title and a quick line in. The line was something along the lines of stabby-stab-stab-stab. That sums yesterday up. I am chalking it up to my final day on the steroids for my back, which is significantly better now. I couldn’t tell you the last…
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Day Fifty-Eight
As it typically goes, after an unproductive day off, I had a productive ‘Monday’. Not that there is anything exciting to report, just a productive day in the store getting things a little more organized while the station is still quiet. We are creeping closer and closer to what is called WinFly. That’s the pre…
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Day Fifty-Seven
I didn’t do anything today, well, that’s not entirely true. I got up, coffee’d, showered, and then it was pretty much game over. I doom scrolled on the socials. I caught up with some, but not all, emails and messages. I posted a couple pictures to the socials, so check out my IG for that…if…
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Day Fifty-Six
It’s bizarre how much more connected I am feeling after last weeks disconnect. Oddly enough, all those not fitting in feels I’d been feeling have dissipated and I feel surrounded by heaps of all the good juju now. I don’t have a desire to drink, to fit in or to feel free. I can’t explain…
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Day Fifty-Five
It’s July 4th! Gawd Bless ‘Murica. We had our big cookout and party over the weekend and today we had a parade. It lasted all of five minutes, which is the standard time year after year. It’s -25F without the wind chill. If the vehicles had not been so spread out it quite possibly could…
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Day Fifty-Four
If you know me in the real life, not just the internet one, you know that for me to go to the doc, I’m hurting. Even for me to take ibuprofen, I’m hurting. And for me to go to the doc a mere twenty-four hours after the pain became that level, I is hurting mucho.…