OK. This is a true story. This morning, I'm having a Monday. I got up to
go swimming but there was a frost so I rushed in to borrow the egg
lifter (aka windscreen scraper). I went swimming (good girl) but had to
stop for gas and this horrible old yuppie woman cut in front of my with
her SUV even though I was clearly there before her and I had to wait for
an available gas pump and then I was on the wrong side. I debated
confronting her, but made do with quietly and good naturedly complaining
to the kid behind the counter. I rushed off frantically to the post
office, because now I was behind schedule. I grabbed the package and
lept from the car, smashing the package's sharp corner into my nose. I
ran into a cheerful and ditzy elderly woman (she didn't know if she was
coming or going) in my haste- luckily she thought this was hysterically
funny. Who rushes in Sidney? I rushed in- mercifully no line. Yet since
there was no one behind the counter I had to wait. Then I realized that
my wallet had fallen out of my purse, so the postal worker had to cancel
the transaction, flinging the small post office into disarray (since
her computer skills lack much to be desired). I rushed back to the car
and got my wallet. Luckily, this is Sidney, and one can leave a wallet
in an unlocked car for 5 minutes without having it stolen. I came back
to the post office and there were ten people in line! The one computer
still wasn't working because postal lady A didn't know how to cancel a
transaction. I finally got to the front. Postal lady A gave up and I
luckily got Postal lady B (finally a break).
I made it to work, luckily in time to get some (bad) coffee. Bad coffee is marginally better than no coffee.
I checked my email. I am currently having discussions with colleagues about the possibility of:
1) shipping 2.2 metric tonnes from Germany to the Yukon
2)
doing a marine electromagnetic survey ON LAND in the arctic with said
heavy equipment, in the summer when the land gets flooded, dragging a
kilometer of cable, say either behind a caterpillar type truck or one of
those boats with the big fans used in the Everglades. Any one got a
hovercraft I could use?
3) alternatively, we do a land EM survey in
the winter at 40 below. Electrical tape will freeze and cut like a
razor. Nuts and bolts won't match since they will shrink. We might have
to heat up the electronics to get them to work.
I can't decide
which of the people involved in these preliminary plans is craziest. I'm
having difficulty telling if they are kidding me. The scary part is
that I'm the one trying to convince them we could do this arctic survey
and the harder I push the more bizarre the ideas they throw at me. Am I
the craziest?
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