Day 11

Day 11

I earned my EVA stripe today.

We put on the full-suit, the boots, the gloves, the helmets, everything. It was pretty cool. Pretty painful also. The backpacks sat weird on my shoulders and caused tension right where the back of my neck meets my shoulders. A quickie massage after the EVA took care of most of the pain. I just hope I can get out of bed tomorrow. Today was bad enough.

I rolled around for about half an hour after the first wake-up music started playing. I really don't know why I find it so hard to wake up in the morning here. Even with the prospect of coffee, it's insanely hard to get up.

Tonight is supposed to be clear according to the weather reports, but it's not looking so hot for observering. I'm a bit happy in a way, because this means that I'll get to sleep tonight. This also means that we should have gone last night when it was clear, because there is a snow storm coming in Friday, and it's quite likely that we won't have another clear night.

Oh well.

For once, Jeff doesn't have his head in the toilet. He's actually outside working on the third ATV, trying to un-hotwire it to make it run. David's still got his head in the toilet though. Hopefully it's almost done and will be operational tonight.

I made bread last night, and it was absolutely amazing. If there's one thing I'm learning on this mission is how much fun it is to cook. I looked up how to make bread and it sounds rather fun actually. I might try it when I get back to uni.

We watched War Stories last night. I think that is my favourite episode of Firefly. It's the first one I saw, and it blew my mind. Any prediction I made for the episode was blown out of the water by Joss Whedon's brilliance.

Zena and Jeff said they liked my garlic butter sauce. One of the high points in my day.

Guh, I am going to be so stiff tomorrow.

night monkey out

End day 11