Alright folks, it's about time I close out this blog considering I'm back from Antarctica and all. Thanks to everybody for following my blog and my whereabouts during my trip - I hope you enjoyed reading it. Take care, have a happy and healthy holiday season, and be sure to kick off 2011 with a BANG!
Best,
Mark
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Back in Providence!
Alrighty, enough lying about my whereabouts... I actually left the field on Dec. 2, left McMurdo on Dec. 9, and got back to Providence on Dec. 11, all in an effort to surprise my parents (mostly my dad) on my dad's birthday (Dec. 14). I officially made my mother cry for half of a day, as well as made my father shout "YOU SNEAKY BASTARD!" in a crowded restaurant. Mission: accomplished.
I'm now grinding away at working on an abstract for a conference that is due on Jan. 4. As soon as that gets done, I can begin to relax and regroup from Antarctica and perhaps even take a few days off before returning to work and teaching in late January.
I should be back in NJ for the holidays starting next Wednesday or Thursday (depending on how much progress I make on this abstract), then I'm heading down to Texas to visit Tina and her family from Dec. 27 until Dec. 29. Then, we fly back to Providence and head up to Montreal for New Years with some cool mix of people from NJ/PVD. Then, I'm probably back in PVD for a good chunk of time to regroup and work on some stuff, then I'm gonna take a little vacation before the real work starts again in late January!
Alrighty, back to work so that I can get out of Providence ASAP! Talk to you all later!
Mark
I'm now grinding away at working on an abstract for a conference that is due on Jan. 4. As soon as that gets done, I can begin to relax and regroup from Antarctica and perhaps even take a few days off before returning to work and teaching in late January.
I should be back in NJ for the holidays starting next Wednesday or Thursday (depending on how much progress I make on this abstract), then I'm heading down to Texas to visit Tina and her family from Dec. 27 until Dec. 29. Then, we fly back to Providence and head up to Montreal for New Years with some cool mix of people from NJ/PVD. Then, I'm probably back in PVD for a good chunk of time to regroup and work on some stuff, then I'm gonna take a little vacation before the real work starts again in late January!
Alrighty, back to work so that I can get out of Providence ASAP! Talk to you all later!
Mark
Thursday, December 9, 2010
SHOWERS, DARKNESS, AND T-SHIRTS
The title to this post are the three things that I missed the most from the field. Other things include toilets, real food, tables & chairs, and the internet. Oh, and all of you. You can lump yourselves into that list where ever you choose. Preferably towards the bottom.
It's been quite a field season. Work-wise, we got all of our primary tasks completed and almost every other objective completed as well. We finished about a week ahead of schedule thanks to all of the hard work that the rest of the team put in. We collected just under 2,000 lbs of rocks and about triple the number of pictures (at least). Tons of spectra too. Again, a complete success science-wise.
It's been a season of big news, too. It looks like the direction of my education and the mentors that will be guiding me down that path are changing (inquire for further details, if you care), as well as some other big family and friend news that I had caught wind of in the field. It'll sure be exciting to come back to the US and see how things have changed around me.
Let's see, some highlights of the season... I learned a little French from Sylvain (let me re-emphasize the word little). No major injuries, despite getting the wind knocked out of me by having a car battery hit me in the back and pin me to the ground and the loss of feeling in my fingertips. I think I gained weight again, but chances are all of this weight is from McMurdo and the gorge-fest that insues at every meal. Other than that, I can't think of anything that really stands out. I'll definitely come up with some better stories and post them as they briefly cross my mind and then are replaced by smaller, less fun, and less important memories.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! Please reply to this post and let me know what kinda cool/unusual stuff has happened in the world for the past two months. All I've heard about is Leslie Neilson dying. Poor guy.
Later!
Mark
It's been quite a field season. Work-wise, we got all of our primary tasks completed and almost every other objective completed as well. We finished about a week ahead of schedule thanks to all of the hard work that the rest of the team put in. We collected just under 2,000 lbs of rocks and about triple the number of pictures (at least). Tons of spectra too. Again, a complete success science-wise.
It's been a season of big news, too. It looks like the direction of my education and the mentors that will be guiding me down that path are changing (inquire for further details, if you care), as well as some other big family and friend news that I had caught wind of in the field. It'll sure be exciting to come back to the US and see how things have changed around me.
Let's see, some highlights of the season... I learned a little French from Sylvain (let me re-emphasize the word little). No major injuries, despite getting the wind knocked out of me by having a car battery hit me in the back and pin me to the ground and the loss of feeling in my fingertips. I think I gained weight again, but chances are all of this weight is from McMurdo and the gorge-fest that insues at every meal. Other than that, I can't think of anything that really stands out. I'll definitely come up with some better stories and post them as they briefly cross my mind and then are replaced by smaller, less fun, and less important memories.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! Please reply to this post and let me know what kinda cool/unusual stuff has happened in the world for the past two months. All I've heard about is Leslie Neilson dying. Poor guy.
Later!
Mark
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