"Still there are some chances..."

Somewhere out there, there is a list, with people's names on it, slowly being worked through.  How long is it, and who are the mad globetrotters that make it up, that is anyone's guest.  It is truly fascinating though, how a trip that was so completely off your radar last month is now viewed as essential, and has left you in an odd funk as you wait with thumbs held and fingers crossed as the provisional numbers grow less and less.  Marijke the latest contact from the ether to keep you posted. You can only wait and hope that this dream is not in vain.

The idea of it - a combination of three long dreamed of trips in one startling 3-4 month swoop.  The thought of it alone will surely skate you right through this winter.  And how wonderful would it be, to take that ship to the Weddell Sea and then welcome it back into the home port of Halifax a few months later?  That's the big, spectacular dream to shake off the cobwebs of the weary day-to-day life.

Time to get up again.  Coast into another lazy day of nothing, and the second last of the Energy law lectures.  Even that is set up nicely for one more trial next fall before handing over the reins.  I just need a few people out there to hesitate, to postpone, to fold up their interest and pave the way for you to give yourself the very best of Xmas presents.  Oh man.  Patience and optimism, sayeth Shakelton.  100 years ago.  That's the mantra, please Gods let it come good.