This Aintarctica

Idiot's Guide

DVs are Distinguished Visitors to Antarctica. A DV can be a Senator or Congressman/woman to a bigwig from the National Science Foundation who controls the money for Antarctica research.

The DVs have arrived in McMurdo which means our food has improved and we had to “Daisy Pick” the trash around the station. Daisy Picking is like giving your house a good vacuuming before your mom arrives for a visit. In our case, we walked around McMurdo picking up loose bits of trash so the DVs didn’t see how messy the station was before they arrived.

Even though these DVs might oversee Antarctica and even know what’s best for McMurdo, one of them arrived carrying the book The Complete Idiots Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic.

It gives us such confidence to know it’s official: we are being run by people who get their advice from Idiots. Next time, they should just ask me.