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Or another year by another name, which will probably smell as sweet (or rank) as the last one. I hate to be pessimistic, but there are areas of my life that are full of promise and new opportunity ahead for this year, and others that are pretty much just going to suck. So while my [...]
I’m leaving Christchurch today. It’s been a very interesting trip, on professional and personal levels. I’ve really started looking at the manuscript a different way, and at the Ice a different way, too. I’ve been sufferieng from partial insomnia this whole trip, which has changed the way I’m looking at things–in different lights. I’m happy [...]
My friend Papatya is a brilliant writer and avid reader. And occasionally, she throws out a writing assignment that she tells me I must do, even if she doesn’t directly tell me to do it. So she’s told me, in plenty of places, that I need to switch it up, do something different. So here [...]
poof.
After a fabulous holiday with my friends Craig and Trudy and their two wee kids, I’m back in Christchurch. Being with Lachlan and Lucy really made me realize how much I miss Claire and Sam, so I’m chomping at the bit to go home, but have 2 and a half days here, and then a [...]
What a great feeling to be back where night time actually arrives, and places close down for the night, and where, when the wind blows in your hair, it’s a warm wind, one that reminds you of the sea, and when you open your eyes, the sea is right there. I loved the Ice, don’t [...]
I came here to do a job. I came here to conduct an information security assessment, and I worked my tail off for three straight weeks. I worked my team’s tails off for three straight weeks. But I also came here because I needed the Ice. Somehow, even when I don’t realize it, I need [...]
The Limbo of South Pole
Being stuck at Pole for an extra three days is an interesting exercise in tenacity… As the weather warms, clouds move in faster than it seems the wind should allow. The wide white expanse of the plateau blends into the clouds for a blank canvas, and then, a line appears [...]
Stanley on Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Dear Kira,
We made it to South Pole station! We arrived on December 1 on an LC-130 Hercules plane. This is a plane that has wheels to land, and skis, because planes have to land on skis at South Pole—it’s covered by snow, and wheels will just sink. When we got [...]
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