Today was kind of eventful. I slept through the scientists morale dinner where several of us were supposed to cook for the entire crew. It seems that the day crew took care of it and that all the night crew people I talked to slept right through it. When people who went found out that I missed it, they were all too eager to tell me how good it was and how unfortunate it was that I missed the BEST meal of the whole cruise. Jerks.

Anyway, I slept pretty late to recoup from my long time of wakefulness so when I woke up I went right to midrats. They had nacho fixings with lots of sour cream and big chunks of onions, so naturally I was very satisfied. I spent a while checking e-mail and other stuff and came down around three a.m. to help out with filtering and did that on and off till breakfast. The Sunday breakfast specialty is eggs benedict and they were very good. We really didn't have anything else to do after that so I kind of wandered around for a while. I eventually found my way to a computer and checked the mail. I'm a little out of the loop with the rest of the world so I thought I might catch the tail end of some of the world's dealings but I didn't find anything really interesting. It wasn't too long before Gary, the resident aquatic mammal expert, came in to do his thing and I got to talking with him. It seems that yesterday we sailed right past a dead walrus. He said it was pretty bloated and floating on its back. Also, it has some pretty long tusks. We both found this very interesting but at the time the boat neglected to run this announcement over the P.A. system. Oh well, I'm sure the day sleepers, me included, wouldn't appreciate being woken up to the blaring announcement that we found a bloated walrus carcass.

I didn't feel very sleepy after breakfast so I stayed up for a while reading a book I found in the library. Usually I'm sleeping at this time, and it is Sunday, so I figured I go to the church service they hold upstairs. It was pretty cool and fairly laid back. The ExO was there along with several other members of the crew along with one of our science crew. It was an informal setting so we all had a good time. I came back to my room, watched a little bit of the ship-wide movie channel, read a little bit of my book and then realized I hadn't written my blog yet, so here I am. Tonight should be a little busies that last night. Rachel says that we might cut a bunch of krill eyes off and store them in as many 4ml amber vials we have in methanol, but we also have to take these samples back to Maryland with us. Evidently the airlines have a big to-do about carrying methanol on jetliners so I'm not really sure what we're going to do. Rachel will know what to do. She's our team leader and that title comes with experience, so I'm sure she's been around this bend before. Anyway, I'm going to retire to my rack for a bit so I'll bid you all a fond farewell until tomorrow. Cheers!