The Tantrum
The problem with the station-wide email sent by the summer NSF Station Manager wasn’t the fact that he’d been witnessed openly flouting...
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Ken
- Nov 6
- 11 min
Like Gasoline on a Dumpster Fire
As mainbody entered its second month, it became increasingly obvious that the National Science Foundation’s plan for a full-scale season...
Ken
- Oct 30
- 5 min
The Council of Elders
The United States Antarctic Program, like any organization formerly managed by the military or currently managed by a byzantine...
Ken
- Oct 23
- 6 min
The New Normal
It was probably an exaggeration to refer to the threesome as a “thruple,” and to be honest I never understood the exact nature of their...
Ken
- Oct 16
- 5 min
Expect the Expected, part 2
As the flight delays continued to mount, the number of ants in the NSF’s pants blossomed from a small farm to a sprawling, conspicuous...
Ken
- Oct 9
- 6 min
Expect the Expected, part 1
Every single time I had deployed to Antarctica, my flight to the ice had been delayed. Eventually, it got to the point where the year I...
Ken
- Oct 2
- 8 min
Clusterfuck
Mainbody 2022-23 was shaping up to be a disaster. As I lay on the floor of the hallway connecting terminals 6 and 7—the only carpeted...
Ken
- Sep 25
- 13 min
The Black List
Peggy Sue and I were still on the ice when we noticed that something was wrong. It had been a difficult winfly for any number of...
