Tag: life at the bottom of the world
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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.…
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Day Fifty-Three
We celebrated the 4th of July here the day before yesterday. After my coffee shift on Saturday, I grabbed a quick omelet at brunch and then it was time to open the store. With the station-wide party for the 4th in the evening, I was allowed to close both the store and the bar for…
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Day Fifty-Two
Today was a good day. It started with my weekly coffee shift this morning. It took all of me to get out of bed and go to it. It’s a two-day weekend for the community, which means no one gets up at 7AM, so I knew it would be a very quiet shift. I had…
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Day Fifty
I had insomnia the night before last and gave my Mama an overdue call at 6AM when I should have been fast asleep, but had been awake for three hours after only two hours of sleep. It was so nice to hear her voice and catch up. Here I am halfway to light and I…
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