I love Sundays 11.19.06
Not much to report this week. Lost in Monday night volleyball, won in Friday night dodgeball and no crazy costume parties or talent shows.
For those of you who frequent morning shows, you may have seen the bit on McMurdo station and its science projects on Monday's edition of Good Morning America. There was a live feed shot somewhere between 1-3am Tuesday morning outside of the National Science Foundation Chalet. A group of us chose to stay up that late hoping to be caught on camera. Unfortunately, there were communication problems so they took the interview inside. We opted for hot chocolate over standing outside in the wind after only a half hour. It was a cooold night!
Another interesting thing here on station is the presence of film director Warren Herzog. Herzog is German and the director of the documentary The Grizzly Man. For those of you who haven't see it I highly recommend it. Hopefully we will see something from Herzog featuring life in Antarctica but no word yet.
Yesterday was my second penguin sighting only this time it was from a telescope in the Crary Lab. There were six Emperor Penguins who wandered onto the ice runway a half hour before a C-17 was scheduled to land. It was quite comical watching three firefighters escort six very confused penguins off the runway! Yesterday was my day to clean the ice runway bathroom so after viewing them from the Crary Lab I high-tailed it out to the runway but unfortunately, they were long gone. We did manage to see a baby seal on the way back into town although he didn't look like he was doing so well :(
I recently received a request via email to talk more about what types of things are being studied here at McMurdo and what exactly I do. In case I've been unclear I am working as a janitor, hence the title of my blog, "polarsweep!" I'm going to do my homework this week and get all of the facts straight before I talk more about some of the things going on down here. I apologize for not talking more about my job and for tending to focus on my free time but with a six day work week and the nature of my job I'm not usually excited to "talk shop" on my day off. I encourage anyone to ask questions by leaving comments. I'll do my best to get you an answer.
Baby seal near ice runway...
My friend Jared and I skiing the Cape Armatage loop earlier today...
Have a good week everyone.
For those of you who frequent morning shows, you may have seen the bit on McMurdo station and its science projects on Monday's edition of Good Morning America. There was a live feed shot somewhere between 1-3am Tuesday morning outside of the National Science Foundation Chalet. A group of us chose to stay up that late hoping to be caught on camera. Unfortunately, there were communication problems so they took the interview inside. We opted for hot chocolate over standing outside in the wind after only a half hour. It was a cooold night!
Another interesting thing here on station is the presence of film director Warren Herzog. Herzog is German and the director of the documentary The Grizzly Man. For those of you who haven't see it I highly recommend it. Hopefully we will see something from Herzog featuring life in Antarctica but no word yet.
Yesterday was my second penguin sighting only this time it was from a telescope in the Crary Lab. There were six Emperor Penguins who wandered onto the ice runway a half hour before a C-17 was scheduled to land. It was quite comical watching three firefighters escort six very confused penguins off the runway! Yesterday was my day to clean the ice runway bathroom so after viewing them from the Crary Lab I high-tailed it out to the runway but unfortunately, they were long gone. We did manage to see a baby seal on the way back into town although he didn't look like he was doing so well :(
I recently received a request via email to talk more about what types of things are being studied here at McMurdo and what exactly I do. In case I've been unclear I am working as a janitor, hence the title of my blog, "polarsweep!" I'm going to do my homework this week and get all of the facts straight before I talk more about some of the things going on down here. I apologize for not talking more about my job and for tending to focus on my free time but with a six day work week and the nature of my job I'm not usually excited to "talk shop" on my day off. I encourage anyone to ask questions by leaving comments. I'll do my best to get you an answer.
Baby seal near ice runway...
My friend Jared and I skiing the Cape Armatage loop earlier today...
Have a good week everyone.
posted by PolarSweep at 5:57 PM
2 Comments:
Just read thru your blog from start to this week. What an amazing adventure you are having. We tried to see Happy Feet over Thanksgiving since we all are crazy about penguins, but the theater was sold out! Interesting that Herzog was there...I thought Grizzly man was an incredible movie. His most recent film was the closing feature for the Denver Film Festival a couple of weeks ago, "Rescue Dawn" Do you get first run movies there or golden oldies? First really cold day here. Claire reports great powder at Copper. XXOO Sigrid
Hey Sigrid,
It's so good to hear from you. I am having a great time so far but I always miss Colorado when I'm not there. Feels like a little piece of me is missing...
Actually, I did see Rescue Dawn. It premiered last week here. I never thought I'd have the chance to see a movie in Antarctica BEFORE it came out in the states! What did you think of it??? I see Herzog everyday...him and his camera man.
Thanks for your comment. I'm trying to post once a week but i'm a little behind right now.
Take care!
Cheers, Taryn
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