Tag: travel journal
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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-One
I couldn’t decide if I was going to post this, but you are reading it so I did. Part of me thinks it’s gross to air my dirty laundry here, but there is a louder voice that tells me the only way to live is honestly and that maybe what I say will help someone…
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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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Day Forty-Nine
Yesterday, I had a productive day in the store and a productive day in the gym as well. I did more weight training than normal and it left me with that good burn. After getting in a decent length uphill power walk on the treadmill and doing my normal little weight routine, I joined a…
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Day Forty-Eight
The hectic weekend flew by, as does time in general down here. On Sunday morning, before brunch, I joined a dozen or so friends for the midwinter mile. The route was around town with a couple little hills and lots of cold. I power walked it, and was beat by everyone who was running and…
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Day Forty-Seven
Just before our midwinter celebrations on Saturday, word spread that a medevac flight was going to happen this week. That’s a pretty big deal since there aren’t any flights in/our out over winter. A week or so ago, one of the carpenters over at Scott Base mangled his hand in a fan. Yuck. I guess…
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