…or I could fill one of the last available berths on this year’s Cheeseman trip and visit Antarctica this winter. Between his ability to respond to e-mail faster than any human being I’ve ever met, and his talent for saying just the right thing at the wrong time (“Actually we do have a room that opened up due to cancellation, but it’s the smallest and cheapest one on the ship”) Doug Cheeseman may have just succeeded in luring me away from a from a very comfortable life and a cushy job.
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" — David Mitchell