So I slept a little late again today, but it wasn't quite my fault. You see, I set my pager alarm to wake me up in a rather timely manner in the early afternoon so I went to sleep. I was awoken by the pager beeping next to my head. I picked it up and tried to use the built in light to see the time. The light was much too faint for me to see the time so I turned on my reading light and saw that the pager was beeping because of a low battery alarm. It was also only one o'clock. I put the pager back down and went back to sleep with the expectation of being awoken at the appropriate time. Unfortunately my pager battery passed away later in my sleep and I was rudely waken up from a dream where I was starring in a spectacular musical by my in-room telephone. Out of sorts for being woken twice before the set time, I trundled out of bed to answer the phone but I was too late. I then checked the time and to my aghast it was a quarter past eleven at night. I hustled down to midrats to eat. You must realize that midrats is very important to the night crew. If we miss it we have to go eight hours until breakfast and that makes for some grumpy scientists. I then learned that my roommate hadn't seen me at midrats and was calling to make sure I woke up for it. He's such a nice guy. This all made for one interesting morning. I went upstairs to perform my usual checking of the e-mail and found that our MOCNESS cast wouldn't be until 3:45, so I pittered around for a while, writing a few messages and working up a couple more slides for my presentation. It seems that we were having some traveling problems or difficulty predicting our arrival time or something because the time to station changed to 4:30 and then we didn't truly arrive and stop until 5:00. We usually do our stuff from 1 to 3 so this was a late day. Luckily we worked until a quarter till seven, just in time to get out of my smelly mustang suit and head down to breakfast.

It was a rather chilly evening last night with a stiff breeze and moderately calm seas. We were casting in roughly 140 meter water so the cast took a while, but thanks to my awesome gloves, which are thin, insulated and completely impermeable to water, I made it just fine. I love my gloves. I decided to try a night without wearing them and I spend the next half hour once I got back inside trying to nurse some feeling back into them. The air might not be but in the 40's F but the water is still pretty flipping cold. I haven't been outside today yet, but I imagine that there's no fog, especially since I haven't heard the fog horn yet. Maybe I can have two days of ear-plug free sleep. One can only hope. Anyway, nothing spectacular tonight so I don't have anything really cool to say just yet. There's only six more days until we pull into Dutch Harbor and some of the Coasties I've talked to have been very excited to tell me so. I think they're ready to get off the boat, what do you think? Ha ha, well, I've got a bit of a headache so I'm going to go to sleep. Good night everybody and check back in tomorrow.