Turkey Stand-Down
AKA Thanksgiving.
We celebrate ours on a day more convientant to Raytheon and the National Science Foundation, so instead of the normal one day off, this weekend we had two, with Thanksgiving dinner (Turkey Stand Down) on Saturday, after a 5k Turkey Trot Fun Run from the Chapel down to the ice runway and back.
Also went skiing, then had a tremendous feed put on by the Galley, turkey, pumpkin pie, the whole nine yards, with plenty of wine, but not so much champagne. I tried to remedy this for my part by mixing savigon blanc with Sprite for that bubbly effect, but the results were not sufficent to win many converts. Then after supper we had a block party in my dorm, two halls over. The fellow that is in charge of the green house brought a bag of fresh mint and we made mojitos, which were a hit. One astute commentator said it was likley more people got mojitos than flu shots when the clinic set those up for free as well.
Today I slept in and had a leisurly bruch; it was wonderful having two amazing meals back to back like that. Then I won a drawing for a trip out to the ANDRILL drilling site, where scientists are drilling through the ice shelf and past the sea water below to get the first mineral cores of Antarctica dating backl millions of years. You could say that today I was one of the first pairs of eyes ever to see roack that old (about 3.5 million years) come from Antarctica. And then after supper tonight is a movie being screened by guest grantee artist Werner Herzog, the famous movie director, who gave us the world public premeir of his newest film, Rescue Dawn.
So in short, the long (two day) weekend has been wonderfully refreshing and I for one will be in a better state when it is time to again put mop to floor and kick mud-season ass. Because it has now gone above the freezing point for the first time in about 9 months and we are living in a dirt town now
Hey, in this shot it looks like I am winning the race. Never mind the 20 or so people in front of me.
Running the 5k on the sea ice.
We celebrate ours on a day more convientant to Raytheon and the National Science Foundation, so instead of the normal one day off, this weekend we had two, with Thanksgiving dinner (Turkey Stand Down) on Saturday, after a 5k Turkey Trot Fun Run from the Chapel down to the ice runway and back.
Also went skiing, then had a tremendous feed put on by the Galley, turkey, pumpkin pie, the whole nine yards, with plenty of wine, but not so much champagne. I tried to remedy this for my part by mixing savigon blanc with Sprite for that bubbly effect, but the results were not sufficent to win many converts. Then after supper we had a block party in my dorm, two halls over. The fellow that is in charge of the green house brought a bag of fresh mint and we made mojitos, which were a hit. One astute commentator said it was likley more people got mojitos than flu shots when the clinic set those up for free as well.
Today I slept in and had a leisurly bruch; it was wonderful having two amazing meals back to back like that. Then I won a drawing for a trip out to the ANDRILL drilling site, where scientists are drilling through the ice shelf and past the sea water below to get the first mineral cores of Antarctica dating backl millions of years. You could say that today I was one of the first pairs of eyes ever to see roack that old (about 3.5 million years) come from Antarctica. And then after supper tonight is a movie being screened by guest grantee artist Werner Herzog, the famous movie director, who gave us the world public premeir of his newest film, Rescue Dawn.
So in short, the long (two day) weekend has been wonderfully refreshing and I for one will be in a better state when it is time to again put mop to floor and kick mud-season ass. Because it has now gone above the freezing point for the first time in about 9 months and we are living in a dirt town now
Hey, in this shot it looks like I am winning the race. Never mind the 20 or so people in front of me.
Running the 5k on the sea ice.
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