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February 18, 2009 at 10:43 pm · Filed under Barrow, school, tales, travel and tagged: BASC, befuddled, quotes, rabies, searches
Spoke too soon. Another BASC email today. Barrow is quarantined-
rabies.
WordPress Statistics let me know where my blog’s traffic comes from, including giving me a list of search terms that lead people here. I don’t often look through them because mostly the searcher is interested in the poignant dangerous quotes I put in my titles. I was surprised by this search term however: “Cheese is a person in your neighboorhood.” I SWEAR that that quote was a dumb joke made up by my clever dumb brother, and he doesn’t even know I have a blog, so… what gives?
Anyway, here, with minimal commentary, are some search terms from the past thirty days.
a title that rhymes with science- Shmience?
pictures of what not to do in science- How embarrassing. Don’t tell Bob.
what are some bad things for biomass?- Laughing during the sorting process so that the ickle plants go flying everywhere.
what kind of flowers do ground squirrel- No, don’t tell me, I have this…. snapdragons?!?
why is teaching important to me- Why, indeed.
free essay on “everything happens for a reason” (x2!)- Shame on you, lazy plagiarizers of the world, shame on you.
i am dangerous quotes- Me too!
things to use as sleighs- Cafeteria trays, large pieces of wood, upside-down tables, a giant boot, double-thick bamboo mats, a light-weight bathtub, armchairs with wings, a polar bear. In case you were wondering. I certainly haven’t addressed this issue in the past.
tundra kindergarten- Sounds good to me!
how do caribou get around- Hot air balloons, mostly.
how to not lose the game- Err, not like that.
little dancing things- I don’t know, seems irrelevant, but if you say so, sure.
in what way is an airplane like a seed- A what is like a what now?
I hope none of these people were too too disappointed. For the record, probably the only one that wasn’t disappointed was the one searcher who typed “twoeyedgirl.wordpress.com”.
ps, one more ………….i’m afraid of teaching Ha, ha.
Is there a Batmobile or sleigh available for us to use? Over.
August 12, 2008 at 6:32 pm · Filed under Barrow and tagged: BASC, hut, truck
“Fishing?” Abel asked us amiably. We were in the gnome truck on the way back from the field. I just smiled because I had no idea what he was saying.
PR Jeremy had the situation under control. “Oh, no, not us, we were on the tundra.”
Abel is one of our BASC drivers when we are without a proper vehicle, say, a truck, Batmobile, or sleigh. “Huh,” he said. “You guys smell like fish.”
We like Abel even when he is being a big meanie face- we did not either smell like fish! I haven’t even seen a fish since… Saturday, when we had sushi delivered from Osaka. The rest of the ride would have been awkward if we hadn’t had other things to talk about, namely that Abel has been absent for the past month. He’s just returned from an exciting internship with Senator Ted Stevens in Washington DC!
Since Abel was gone for a whole month, he didn’t even know that we’d been demoted! By demoted, of course I mean that we are no longer Scientists because we no longer live in the SCIENTISTS building at Dario’s. We now live in Hut 163, which logically says “Max Planck Institute” on the side.
The status of the hut is good; for a week or so we were unsure how all members of the household would take to the situation, but a couple sleeping bags, a portable heater, two new ratty spring mattresses to replace the air mattresses of two of the hutmates, and the ability to make and consume Science Juice in the comfort of our own home helped to create the pleasant atmosphere we now enjoy. We also have our own laundry facilities, though it’s still one bathroom between six people. Actually, the laundry isn’t only ours either. Just the other day while we were in the field a call (not directed to or answered by us) came over the radio that the Shorebird People (cousins to the Loon People, naturally) were in need of a pleasanter place to wash their clothes than the shores of the Chukchi Sea.
Jobby chose to be jaded about this. “Oh yeah?” he said to no one in particular. “I wonder where you’re going to find a washing machine, hmmmmmm?” The menacing jaeger who is never far away had no answer for this. On the way back in from the field that day, another BASC person had an unsurprising message for us: the Shorebird People were going to stop by and do their laundry in our hut, if we don’t mind. Score one for cynicism!
In other news, tomorrow we can’t go out to the field because some new people are coming in and BASC said that they could use our coats and boots.
OK, so that is a lie, but we are mentally preparing ourselves for the day it becomes a reality.
