Does anyone even use LiveJournal anymore? In any case, this seemed like an appropriate entry to crosspost here:

Back at the Bottom of the Well

I wake in the middle of the night from some kind of strange nightmare. It has an epic, sweeping, Dune-like scope and is mostly focused on how totally and completely dead I'll be when, eventually, even the ( Read more... )

If anyone is curious what I've been up to lately -- or for my entire life -- I'm starting a "collaborative micro-memoir" project on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/anotherfoxtaleRead more... )

Hey folks! (Who are still reading - which is probably, like, three of you.) I realize I haven't posted here forever. I'm living back in Boulder and life is beautiful. Taking a hiatus from the Ice for a couple of years, possibly indefinitely, depending on what comes up in the interim ( Read more... )

I'm back on the Ice. Same job as last season. There's less of a learning curve the second time around. Much less the fifth time. There are times when I realize that I'm really good at my job, and there the times when I realize this is a stupid fucking job to be really good at. Such is the duality of the McMurdo Thing. I'm having a stellar ( Read more... )

I'm going back to the Ice on August 20th.

I'd like to start blogging again.

This will be my fifth season though, and I don't think just writing about my daily life is going to keep me engaged enough to post regularly. It's too easy to get caught up in said daily life, in the steady Groundhog Day routine, and forget about the outside world. I ( Read more... )

Home.

I used to struggle with that word a lot. I'm feeling more comfortable with it lately.

In a way Antarctica is home. I've spent more time living there than anywhere else since I graduated college and, in a weird transitory way, I feel very tied into the weird transitory USAP community. I know the folklore, I've staked out territory, ( Read more... )

Hi Folks ( Read more... )

Left the Ice on Feb 20th. Eric and I spent about a week decompressing in Christchurch and then went to Tasmania for ten days. For some reason, I'd always wanted to go there ever since I was a little kid. We spent most of our time in Hobart. Very sweet little town. Got to visit some friends of my grandparents. Then had a long weekend in ( Read more... )

One of my closest Ice friends was fired last week ( Read more... )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!