Day 8
11/3/04
10:20 PM
Wanted to write a few things.
First of all, you don’t see your breath down here. There’s no condensation nuclei. The only time your see it is when you light a match or when the helo is around. That's when you realize how cold it is down here. The air is that clean.
You also have to thaw everything for dinner. All of the cans of beans or meat are frozen solid. You have to poke holes in the lids and rotate them on the stove until they are warm enough to squeeze from the can into a waiting pot. It takes about 10 minutes to thaw them enough so that the frozen core slides out. The same goes for peanut butter and jelly which are the lunch staples, although we usually leave them in a bag hangint high in the tent (warmer up there) for at least a day before we need them.
I’ve been having really vivid dreams lately. I think it is because I haven’t been getting good sleep. It is too light out and I just can’t get into a deep sleep cycle. I dreamt the other night that I was trying out for Joe Stoltz’s baseball team again, only I couldn’t remember how to play. I kept forgetting things. I ended up giving him the finger as I walked off the field and he told me never to come back. I was upset but proud.
Tonight was fun. I made chili again and we laughed a whole lot. We talked about celebrity jeopardy, Mourmons, Conan, fuckbuddies, anal sex, chimpanzees and MC Hammer vs. Jackson. Doug actually put up an argument that Hammer was a better dancer. I was offended. We debated for a few minutes and then Adam interjected with "I can't believe you guys are still talking about this." We teased Kate about a few things, including the topic of vibrators. We do team up on her sometimes and she is usually a really good sport, sometimes even comes back. But it has to get old when it is pretty much constant. I stopped when I sensed her getting upset, but Adam and Doug didn’t. I kept looking her in the eye trying to show her that I understood and I was sorry, but I don’t know if the message got across. She probably just sees me as another asshole.
Adam was protesting about using a vibrator with a woman and I said “So you’re not into the machines?” in a pretty serious tone. Doug burst out laughing and almost vomited because he had just taken a drink and it went down the wrong pipe. He couldn’t stop laughing. He thought I meant machines like cyborgs. Terminator 3 style. It was hilarious. So for the rest of the night we kept coming back to cyborgs. I played Mr. Roboto, so that was sung a few times as well ("Secret secret, I've got a secret"). Then right before everyong was about to leave, we were talking about the morning radio check-in to McMurdo and how Dave was going to be in town. Then Adam told Kate that during the call, she should say “Macops, this is G054, we have 4 souls at camp, no cyborgs, over”. I laughed straight for like 90 seconds. It was the funniest thing I think I’ve heard since we’ve been here. Maybe I'm slowly going crazy.
10:20 PM
Wanted to write a few things.
First of all, you don’t see your breath down here. There’s no condensation nuclei. The only time your see it is when you light a match or when the helo is around. That's when you realize how cold it is down here. The air is that clean.
You also have to thaw everything for dinner. All of the cans of beans or meat are frozen solid. You have to poke holes in the lids and rotate them on the stove until they are warm enough to squeeze from the can into a waiting pot. It takes about 10 minutes to thaw them enough so that the frozen core slides out. The same goes for peanut butter and jelly which are the lunch staples, although we usually leave them in a bag hangint high in the tent (warmer up there) for at least a day before we need them.
I’ve been having really vivid dreams lately. I think it is because I haven’t been getting good sleep. It is too light out and I just can’t get into a deep sleep cycle. I dreamt the other night that I was trying out for Joe Stoltz’s baseball team again, only I couldn’t remember how to play. I kept forgetting things. I ended up giving him the finger as I walked off the field and he told me never to come back. I was upset but proud.
Tonight was fun. I made chili again and we laughed a whole lot. We talked about celebrity jeopardy, Mourmons, Conan, fuckbuddies, anal sex, chimpanzees and MC Hammer vs. Jackson. Doug actually put up an argument that Hammer was a better dancer. I was offended. We debated for a few minutes and then Adam interjected with "I can't believe you guys are still talking about this." We teased Kate about a few things, including the topic of vibrators. We do team up on her sometimes and she is usually a really good sport, sometimes even comes back. But it has to get old when it is pretty much constant. I stopped when I sensed her getting upset, but Adam and Doug didn’t. I kept looking her in the eye trying to show her that I understood and I was sorry, but I don’t know if the message got across. She probably just sees me as another asshole.
Adam was protesting about using a vibrator with a woman and I said “So you’re not into the machines?” in a pretty serious tone. Doug burst out laughing and almost vomited because he had just taken a drink and it went down the wrong pipe. He couldn’t stop laughing. He thought I meant machines like cyborgs. Terminator 3 style. It was hilarious. So for the rest of the night we kept coming back to cyborgs. I played Mr. Roboto, so that was sung a few times as well ("Secret secret, I've got a secret"). Then right before everyong was about to leave, we were talking about the morning radio check-in to McMurdo and how Dave was going to be in town. Then Adam told Kate that during the call, she should say “Macops, this is G054, we have 4 souls at camp, no cyborgs, over”. I laughed straight for like 90 seconds. It was the funniest thing I think I’ve heard since we’ve been here. Maybe I'm slowly going crazy.
posted by LankyPoobah at 10:20 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home