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Intro

I am back in Antarctica, working at McMurdo Station for my second season. This year I'm working in the Crary Lab as the Administrative Coordinator. I'll be working with the grantees and lab staff. No more Toilet Tally!! Sorry!

Toilet Tally

521 toilets scrubbed as of February 18, 2007

Weather at McMurdo

Contact Me

Email: katieantarctica@gmail.com

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Relevant Reads

• Big Dead Place
• Terra Incognita
• Ice Bound

Antarctica Movies

• March of the Penguins
• Eight Below
• Madagascar
• Happy Feet
• The Thing
• Alien vs. Predator

Other Ice Websites

• Antarctic Slang
• Ana Bell
• Erin's Life on The Ice
• Sweet As
• South Pole Dudes
• Phil Jacobsen
• Sandwich Girl
• winter camp

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

**WX CANCEL**

**WX CANCEL** is the notice we've been seeing on our TV scroll in regards to our outgoing flight the past two days. I was supposed to be leaving Antarctica yesterday, and I'm still here more than 24 hours later. We're hoping to be out tomorrow as it looks like the weather has cleared, but it's just like Wisconsin... "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute."

I've got a few pictures to post from the past week or so...


This is the view from my office window. Minus the building (that's part of the Crary lab), it's a great view! Mt. Discovery is one of my favorite things to look at.




Me in my office. Jesse, my officemate, is sitting at his desk. You can see my ball chair behind me (I don't use it all the time). And Mrs. Grams' class might notice the big orange sign hanging near my desk!! That sign made lots of people jealous! ;)




On the GA's second to last night in town, we had a little party in our lounge. Andrew suggested putting on the Santa costumes that Matt and I still had from Santarctica. Then we started pulling out other random bits and pieces of costumes. Now Bamma and I have a box full of stuff for next year's "Costume Box"!




This is Andrew the GA. We'll be hanging out in New Zealand at some cool houses on the north part of the South Island with some friends of ours. Then the two of us will be meeting up in South Africa at the very end of March. I'm so excited to see what crazy adventures we find ourselves in!




This is my buddy Ethan in the Galley for dinner. He's a coworker of mine, and we pinset together at the bowling alley when both our schedules work out. I'm a big fan of this guy, and he's more than likely not coming back. But he's moving to Vancouver with his girlfriend (also a friend of mine) so I will have a place to stay when I finally get up to BC.




My friends at Scott Base invited me over for one last dinner with them last week. They told me that next season I have a standing date to come over for dinner once a week. :) I snapped this picture in the bar after dinner. When Shaz and Billee were chatting, Megan started making faces. Love this pic!