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Winter Brain

There is a point in the winter at which going outside becomes consistently strange and uncomfortable, even in the moments when you’re...

Midwinter

The eve of the midwinter celebration brought the first con 1 of the season. The weather conditions, or cons, are numbered on a scale...

Heart of Darkness

When Peggy Sue first suggested I drop the early-morning workout routine and join her at lunch for my daily session of stationary-bike...

Homemade Transcendence, part 2

There is a kind of cultural momentum that bolsters the large events throughout mainbody. Each requires a lot of work on the part of many...

Homemade Transcendence, part 1

The first problem with the story was the way it was almost immediately taken out of its proper context; the second problem was the way it...

An (Incomplete) Glossary of Antarctic Terms

Learn to speak like an Antarctican! Sprinkle the words and acronyms from this long overdue and woefully incomplete guide into your...

Sex on the Ice, part 2

I am going to tell you what I think I know—this has been the case with everything I’ve written about in this blog, but here it seems...

Sex on the Ice, part 1

During my first deployment to McMurdo, it was common for the Lodging office to post current population figures in the hallway outside...

Blown Away

The email from the NSF station manager temporarily banning all personnel from the area surrounding the unfinished IT&C building came...

Last Sunset

The day that forty-something contractors piled into a handful of NSF-owned vans painted USAP red and blue and drove up to the hills above...

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