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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...

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...

The Council of Elders

The United States Antarctic Program, like any organization formerly managed by the military or currently managed by a byzantine...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Coda

Toward the end of our 12+ month-long deployment, Peggy Sue and I picked up something like a mantra, a thought we’d say to one another...

Takeoff

It was time to leave. Peggy Sue and I had been on the ice for over a year when our scheduled flight North finally rolled around on the...

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