LOL...Hi Conni! We have some care packages being sent to help us avoid some of the more staggering costs. A lot of this gets reimbursed to us, so it's not so bad ...
10-12-11: Rachel: "Hey, I'm smarter than I thought!"
6-5-09: Glenn: "It's always good to wear pants into the field."
6-2-09: Glenn: "Does that duck have a permit?" (referring to the fact that anyone working at the area of our site must carry a permit from the local government allowing access, said to a rather loud duck)
3-26-09: Adam (fellow researcher working here, and a Purdue alum!): "I can't believe I'm being thwarted by a volcano!!!"
3-21-09: Holger (German researcher working here, commenting on those who can "smell" the halogens in the snowpack): "I can see the smell!"
3-4-09: Didier (French researcher working here): "We are lucky we work with snow, where everything is soluble, except what's insoluble." (to a snow chemistry person, this is really funny!)
3-4-09: Alexis: "If I lose 2 or 3 toes to frostbite, will I get a discount on my pedicures?"
3-4-09: Florent (French snow physics guru): "Who touched my snowpack!?!??!!"
3-3-09: Chelsea: "Hey! Thursday is Cinco de Mayo!" Dr G: "No it's not..." Chelsea: "What? Yes it is!" Dr G: "No, Mayo is May ... it's not Cinco de Marcho."
2-25-09: Dave (fellow BASC researcher): "I like stickers ... they stick to stuff!"
2-24-09
Chelsea: "Apparently walking with a limp makes you look cool...like you got shot or something."
2-23-09 Dr G: "I'm awesome. I backed that trailer up like a man...and I'm catching stuff that's thrown at me!"
2-21-09 Alexis: "I really don't like the Alaskan wind ... or tools either..."
2-21-09 Alexis: "Wow, I actually just kinda meant it when I said I'm sorry."
2-17-09 Chelsea: "I'm NOT a vegetarian...dude, gimme some chicken!"
2-17-09 Chelsea (Purdue grad student working here at BASC): "The term global warming is far too pleasant. Let's call it Earth Herpes instead. No one wants Earth Herpes!"
2-17-09 Lewis (Basc station manager): "Ridiculous questions deserve ridiculous answers."
2-11-09
Alexis: "The snow looks like glitter!"
Dr G: "Yeah, that's why I study snow ... cause it looks like glitter."
2-8-09
Dr G in text message to Alexis: "Hey, it is -36 in Barrow right now, with a windchill of -61F!".
Long pause ...
Alexis in text message to Dr G: "I don't know how to spell the sound I just made."
6-21-08 Ali: "I'm directionally challenged."
Glenn: "Well, that big white bumpy thing in front of you is the ocean."
6-17-08 "Well, that was a delicious mistake!" - Brittany (a friend of the group)... who ended up with green tea ice cream for dessert when in actuality she didn't order it
6-9-08 "Some words are just more important that others ... and should be spoken in Spanish ... or German." - Ali
5-27-08 Ian: "Is that a brownie, or cake?"
Ali: "Is not a brownie with frosting...cake?..."
5-25-08 "We now observe the Arctic tourist. Curious creatures - they can't drive and talk too much." (Said in response to bumbling tourists taking photos of us while we drove down the road) - Ali
4-15-08 "I could be wrong. It could just be the muktuk talking..." - Ian
4-15-08 "I have whale stuck in my tooth..." - Dr. G
3-26-08 "Don't mind her, she's having an Arctic moment." - Glenn
3-20-08 "It's so cold it is almost fun!" - Ian
3-19-08: "I love the thesaurus! Shift F7!!!" - Ian
3-18-08:
Ian: "So, you mean all this sea ice will be melted by the time we leave?"
Dr. G: "Yeah."
Ian: "That's kinda epic."
3-3-08: "Oh, Michel-Miller has a tapered bottom! We don't want a tapered bottom." - Dr. G
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The mind boggles. Reels, even. Do you take non-perishables with you, or are you doomed to spend twice as much on cereal and bread?
LOL...Hi Conni! We have some care packages being sent to help us avoid some of the more staggering costs. A lot of this gets reimbursed to us, so it's not so bad ...
OMG! Unbelievable. You guys need lots of carepackages! It would cost less for me to buy it and send it to you that for you to buy it there..
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