Well it is around 1pm in the afternoon and I am repacking for the third time, trying to fit in all the additional things one has to take travelling these days, like several chargers, cords, computer, keyboard, iPhone, iPod, iPad, iPeripherals etc Just been texted by Air New Zealand to say the flight to Christchurch has been delayed 20 minutes – so far so good, even though the connecting time to Invercargill is pretty tight. It has been quite stressful for all concerned getting ready for this trip on the Akademik Shokalskiy, which as most people now know, was stuck in the ice for 12 days from Xmas Day. Fortunately she got herself out of the ice and has made very good time back to the port of Bluff in Invercargill, so that our trip can depart as planned on Saturday afternoon.
Of course, I invoked Murphy’s Law when I decided to hold off finishing lecture preparation – an attempt to trick fate which backfired, as now I still have no lectures completed yet, although I have pretty much all the information I need – just need to settle down to prepare the appropriate PowerPoint slides.
My two beautiful nieces Sally and Kate will be my housekeepers while I am away, earning extra travel money for cleaning and de-cluttering my house! I am thrilled as no amount of money will compensate for the great feeling of coming home to a clean and tidy house, which it certainly is not at the moment!
So this entry is really to test the system I have set up for sending updates from the field. Hope it works, as it is a bit hard to access the Internet from Antarctica, or worse, the middle of the Southern Ocean.
Watch this space!
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