A Quick Aside...

I think this would be the only way possible for a Jane Austen book to be entertaining.

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/title,Pride-and-Prejudice-and-Zombies

My fun experiences today

So today I rounded with a doctor specializing in pediatrics and women's health. I got to do the following:

1. See a newborn taken from a Caesarean section and cleaned up. He turned from a dark purple to a bright pink after about 5 minutes on oxygen. Baby's doing fine.

2. Play with a 6 year old girl in the doctor's office. This cute little girl read my name badge and started going, "Erik! Erik! Erik!" and hiding when I looked at her. Then she'd stick her tongue out at me and run away when I made monster noises.

3. Explain to a native pharmacy tech all about the "native traditions" of the Lower 48, to which she was absolutely dumbfounded.

Nine days until I hop on a plane!

The Zombie Apocalypse Approaches

Now, this is just fantastic.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,484326,00.html

Also, a volcano is going to erupt near Anchorage in the next few "days to weeks".

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/29/alaska.volcano/index.html

Current temperature with wind chill: -35F

Temperature after volcano erupts: AAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH! IT BURNS!!!!!!!

11 Days to Go

Last night my preceptor invited me and the other pharmacy student over for dinner. He and his wife made caribou lasagna with home-picked blueberry cobbler and ice cream for dessert. Fantastic food. After dinner, we played Uno with his kids. And I won at Uno.

That's right. Six-year olds beware, for I am the Uno Master!

Weather's calmed down again, ranging from 20 to zero, so it's downright balmy here right now.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again.

More Pictures from the K-300

Howdy all!

I've got 20+ pictures being uploaded right now to my photobucket account I took at the K300 sleddog race. The internet connection is slow, and I can only upload a picture about every 5-10 minutes, but I'll try to get them all up in the next hour or so.

To view the pictures, you can click on the ridiculously large photo below.

Pictures!

Photobucket Album

Puppies Postponed Again

Well, because of all the ice the Fiddle Dance was a bust. There were about 5 people that showed up, and twice as many people volunteering so I headed out after about an hour. The ice on the roads became so bad that the cabs stopped running. The picture of the iced-over parking lot is the parking lot of the Cultural Center where the Fiddle Dance was last night. After slipping and sliding home, I watched a bit of TV and headed to bed. Or at least I tried to despite the wailing banshees attacking the city.

About 10pm last night, the wind in Bethel picked up to 54 miles per hour with gusts up to 67. The entirety of Prison Row was shaking and rocking back in forth. As a reminder, all buildings in Bethel except for the hospital are built on wooden pilings. So with the wind whipping above, at, and below the house, I didn't get much sleep. Every so often something would break off of one of the other houses and skid/slide/scrape down the road past my place. So, that was exciting.

Waking up today, the sky is blue but because the streets and everything else is covered in a layer of melty ice the K300 was kicked back again to start noon tomorrow.

New pictures have been uploaded to the Flickr account, and should be showing on the column to the left.

Also this morning I went to Saturday Market, which is a big crafts fair held every month or so where Native Alaskans can sell their wares. I took a picture of the row of furs and myself holding a blue fox fur, which are both posted. The furs include foxes, badgers, mink, rabbit, muskrat and lynx. It was all I could do not to stand there all day and pet them.

So here I am again at the Armenian Pizza Place, uploading pictures and posting to the blog. Tomorrow, if the K300 starts up, I'll make sure to take a bunch of pictures.

Stay warm everybody!