Tag: life at McMurdo Station
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Day Seventeen
The first thing I thought when I woke up today was, ew, you’ve got to take down yesterday’s entry. Being Saturday, I had to make a move and get to my coffee shift, so I left the thought hanging out in bed as I bundled up to head to Southern (the coffee house). Coffee is…
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Day Sixteen
I spend a fair amount of time in my head down here. Maybe I do up there, too. I’m usually overanalyzing or overthinking something and it’s usually something about myself that the antagonist has brought to my attention. It can get pretty uncomfortable. Self-awareness cuts both ways. It is nice to have the awareness, but…
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Day Fifteen
I’m convinced that the storm sucked the energy out of me. I never doubted that the weather affects us as humans, but if ever there was subconscious doubt, it’s gone. The storm is gone, too, and my energy is back, relatively speaking. Hello and Goodbye -98F. It was 0 Fahrenheit today and it felt like…
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Day Fourteen
We had a gnarly storm yesterday, the wind chill took us to -98F. Crazy. I only experienced it as I ran across to the gerbil gym and back. Down here, it’s the wind that gets you. It is unlike any other wind I’ve ever experienced. All I have to do is run between buildings periodically…
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Day Thirteen
Today is day two of struggling to get out of bed in the morning. I know it wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about the struggle, but then there was a stretch, be it short, of not mentioning it, which means I was doing okay. And now I am not. Despite the struggle, I…
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Day Eleven
So, about last night…After the walk back from Hut Point, I got warm and cozy in bed and two minutes later my pager went off with an aurora alert. The pages come from our firehouse and it read, strong auroras in the direction of AH. There are two alert lists you can be on, one…
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Day Ten
Woofah. I am tired this evening. I was full of energy during the day and as a result, it was a productive day at work, but I am zonked this evening. I had my coffee shift this morning, so it was an earlier than normal start, but a caffeinated start, which might have had something…
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Day Nine
Yesterday ended up being one of those days where my cup felt like it was overflowing with all the good stuff. Not just because it was my day off, it was truly a heart-so-full kind of day. I realized two things in the evening. The first being that the day before marked seven-months on the…
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Day Seven
It’s Wednesday! The exclamation mark notes my excitement because although it is midweek for most, it is my Friday. I am always excited for my day off and they come around pretty quickly. My day started with a session in the gerbil gym. I should point out that the gym is not attached to the…
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Day Six
Tuesday. On Tuesday mornings, I go into work earlier for what is called beverage pull or bev pull for short. So no gym on Tuesdays, because I am not getting up any earlier than I already do. Instead I have a yoga mat in my room and I do my little routine there and get…
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