Here's an aerial view of Mactown with some added informative highlights in green.

A typical day in the life of a Carp Shop GA would include (but not necessarily be limited to) the following events:

Wake up at 6:30... snooze until 6:45. Do some rejuvenating yoga and go for a one hour jog at a brisk pace... HA! yeah right... more like; sleepwalk downstairs and eat. Breakfast is usually lots of canned fruit, an egg/flour based product (ie. waffle, french toast, pancake) possibly bacon, eggs if I'm feeling adventurous, water and apple juice.

Then it's off to the shop for the good morning meeting at 7:30 where the foremen line us out for the day. Stretching for fifteen minutes, then work, work, work. This could be anything from building boxes for scientists, to shoveling snow, to going out of town, to fixing something that's broken or possibly tiling a nasty old shower basin. The station takes 15 min breaks at 10 and 3 and lunch can occur anywhere between 11:30 and 1:30 for an hour or so.

Lunch is usually a chicken product (guaranteed at least one meal a day of poultry) somethin' else, vegetarian dish of sorts some A-juice and there's a sandwich bar (usually with a long line since lunch can be... "sketchy" at times). So far, I would have to say that the food here is absolutely wonderful, we get seafood at leat 3 times a week, today was a scallop, muscle, halibut and salmon casserole!!

Post lunch work is usually a bit slower pace due to rapid food-coma onset (RFCO), but picks up in pace, especially around 5:00 when shop clean-up begins and timecards are filled out. 5:30 is dinner time, but usually 6 for me since the chances of me exercising at the gym post dinner (remember RFCO) are pretty bad. Dinner is the best meal with lots of variety, fresh salad greens, really good baked breads and desserts and as always; all the apple juice you can drink.

Possible evening activities could include calls to my lovely fiance, coffee-shopping, reading, making things out of wood up at the shop, science lectures, emails, evening strolls, picture taking and that rare hygiene ritual known as "showering."

Aside from Sundays, where all of the above is substituted with sleeping in, Sunday brunch, church and relaxing, that is pretty much it. Lately the weather has been around 10-20 degrees with variable wind and mostly sunny... 24 hours a day.

Well, hopefully everyone can feel a bit closer to me now that you have such detailed insight into my life down here. Thanks for reading!

~G

To clear up any questions... Skua Central: a little building kind of like a Salvation Army, except everything is free! Hotel California: a dorm, located next door to the Mammoth Mountain Inn. Ice pier: a 36 foot thick ice cube created to work like a dock for the ships. And yes, there's a bowling alley.

PS Sorry for the bad picture glare, it's a photo of map in the hallway.