November 7

Near 11pm this evening the weather went to "Condition 1", which means one is not permitted to leave the building they are in. Myself and a coworker were cleaning the building where all of the weather people work. Although there's a lot of expensive weather equipment in the building, the weather guy was standing in front of a window, looking out. When the visibility was poor enough that he could not see the next building over, he declared the weather was condition 1. He continued to stand in front of the window and declared the weather was no longer condition 1 when he could again see the building.

I saw a bird yesterday, it's the first wild living thing I've seen since arriving in Antarctica. The bird is known as a Skua and looks amazingly similar to a big seagull. I just saw it from a distance. Apparently the birds migrate here each summer to mate.

I called my coworker a penguin-killer for dumping a high volume of bleach down the drain. She didn't believe me.