January 6

I KNOW! I've been really bad at keeping up with my blog. I don't really have an excuse (plus an ex used to tell me that you shouldn't apologize and give excuses at the same time). I've just been lazy.

Lots of cool things have happened since my last blog. We found a can of bug spray in the lost and found bin (there's not any bugs here). We can see the icebreaker ship off in the distance. Numerous penguin sightings have occured on and around campus. I met a guy that drives a tour bus across America for a living. I played euchre for the first time in months. I watched a hitchhiking documentry about a guy that works here (70,000 miles, 42 countries, 6 continents). My lead was hired to janitor over-winter. There was a travelogue on Pakistan. I was convinced the entire world has pretty mountains. I went to a bluegrass concernt and danced and danced. I wrote letters, received packages and worked on my Spanish lessons.

I was asked which day I wanted to leave Antarctica (February 21st). The first janitors start leaving on February 11. That's less than 5 weeks away. Folks are starting to talk much about their post-Antarctica travel plans. Folks are mentioning that they are ready to go home. There's a mandatory meeting this week that's all about leaving Antarctica. It's an odd feeling, the beginning of the end. I feel like I've just arrived and like I've been here forever.

All is well, I'll do better keeping up with the blog.