So, I have this idea... I don't have any idea if it would work out so well, but I wanna do it anyway. Mostly cause I think it's gonna be fun just to attempt, and also a good way to kill time over the last week and a half I'm here.
What I'm gonna do is take a metric ton worth of short videos on my tiny little digital camera, and I want to splice them into one (or more) videos, put music to it, and then basically send these McMurdo music videos to my friends I met here. I have some, that I have taken throughout the season, but I want to go nuts for the next week. So Jef, I know you have been keeping up with this... and all it's insanity, any thoughts... and I was thinking maybe you know how to do this maybe... or maybe Jake would be the guy to ask... I don't know.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
I don't think anyone is reading this any more.
I'm fairly certain that this blog has died. In that I don't mean I've stopped writing, even if it's mostly dribble. I mean I'm fairly certain I have no audience anymore. But if I do have an audience, let me know, or else I'll just be a friend of the internets and kill the blog.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
My friend is gone, he ran away... I can tell you..
Ahh. So I don't much know what to write right now. I just feel like this is the thing to do right now, so I'll apologize in advance for any incoherent or seemingly psychotic prattle.
My departure from the ice grows near, and honestly I'm looking at it as a god send... but then again my initial plans for post Antarctica travel seem to have fallen out of the bottom like sea ice in a paper cup. Just trust me on that analogy. So as I sit and listen to The Annuals, I find myself wondering if there is something bigger to any of this or if it's just a stroke of bad luck. I'm resolved to make this my year, and I'm not going to let one hitch in the road mess that up for me. I've been down on myself for too many years and I've been treading water too long to go right back to that. So, it looks like I'll spend a few days in Christchurch and maybe a day or 2 in Sydney, then head to Hawaii for a couple of days. After that I'll likely head in to the left coast and visit my brother before making the flight home. So, my grandiose idea of traveling from Budapest to Prague to Frankfurt to Amsterdam via some combination of hostel work and vagabonding is all but dead... even if I desperately try to find ways to necessitate it as if I was someone who just lost the love of a life, screaming at the doctors how very unfair it was and how this can't be happening... all the while I know hope is all but dead for it. Wow, how over dramatic of me. Ah, well. Worse things have happened. I will create another opportunity to go see the beauty that Europe has to offer.
"And the songs that we sing, still make the bells ring.. but we fell asleep for the sermon."
Discovering new music is awesome. On a different note, I'm getting tired of Iron and Wine. However, I'm thrilled with Sufjan Stevens. And Forest Sun.
So the way I see it, you can hope to see me in Asheville town on or around the 22nd or 23rd of February.
My departure from the ice grows near, and honestly I'm looking at it as a god send... but then again my initial plans for post Antarctica travel seem to have fallen out of the bottom like sea ice in a paper cup. Just trust me on that analogy. So as I sit and listen to The Annuals, I find myself wondering if there is something bigger to any of this or if it's just a stroke of bad luck. I'm resolved to make this my year, and I'm not going to let one hitch in the road mess that up for me. I've been down on myself for too many years and I've been treading water too long to go right back to that. So, it looks like I'll spend a few days in Christchurch and maybe a day or 2 in Sydney, then head to Hawaii for a couple of days. After that I'll likely head in to the left coast and visit my brother before making the flight home. So, my grandiose idea of traveling from Budapest to Prague to Frankfurt to Amsterdam via some combination of hostel work and vagabonding is all but dead... even if I desperately try to find ways to necessitate it as if I was someone who just lost the love of a life, screaming at the doctors how very unfair it was and how this can't be happening... all the while I know hope is all but dead for it. Wow, how over dramatic of me. Ah, well. Worse things have happened. I will create another opportunity to go see the beauty that Europe has to offer.
"And the songs that we sing, still make the bells ring.. but we fell asleep for the sermon."
Discovering new music is awesome. On a different note, I'm getting tired of Iron and Wine. However, I'm thrilled with Sufjan Stevens. And Forest Sun.
So the way I see it, you can hope to see me in Asheville town on or around the 22nd or 23rd of February.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Eat this grade school english
What could be more fun than floating outside of yourself in shorts and a tee shirt in the middle of an Antarctic summer trying to figure out if you are finally starting to beat what is now a recurring sinus infection that never seems to go away and continues to wreak havoc on your immune system.
Down here... not much.
After being out of work sick for the better part of the week and being put on an ever changing battery of medications for what was, in December, a standard sinus infection with bad headaches; last weekend, a series of symtoms caused by migraines (symptoms including but not limited to; migraine pain headaches, body pain and stiffness, vomiting, and general congestion); and now full blown sinusitius (? whatever that really is) and intense non-migraine but with the power of migraine headaches and body pains. So after being out of work until at least Friday, I can safely say, I had the best bad day ever, thanks most definitly to the awesome things my friends and family sent me over the holidays and the medication given me by McMurdo "General Hospital" aka the med clinic. Anyway, time to attempt sleep, run on sentences complete, eat that grade school english!
Down here... not much.
After being out of work sick for the better part of the week and being put on an ever changing battery of medications for what was, in December, a standard sinus infection with bad headaches; last weekend, a series of symtoms caused by migraines (symptoms including but not limited to; migraine pain headaches, body pain and stiffness, vomiting, and general congestion); and now full blown sinusitius (? whatever that really is) and intense non-migraine but with the power of migraine headaches and body pains. So after being out of work until at least Friday, I can safely say, I had the best bad day ever, thanks most definitly to the awesome things my friends and family sent me over the holidays and the medication given me by McMurdo "General Hospital" aka the med clinic. Anyway, time to attempt sleep, run on sentences complete, eat that grade school english!
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