Excerpt

""Tomorrow I'm going to die," she said, "and no one will ever know me."

Her face,
as bleak and bare
as any November coastline I have seen
turned against the sky."

For Drydem

Comment with the words "Top Ten" or "Top Five", and I will reply with a subject for which you will generate a top ten (or top five) list. Post the list and instructions in your own journal. Hit me! I love this meme.

(Inspired by my discovery that academics can apply for International Polar Yearfunding. The fellowship applications include a section on equipment you plan to use: computers? Dog-sleds? icebreakers?)


Top Uses for an Icebreaker

1) Providing your students something to talk about on the first day. (Ha!)

2) Navigating the Northwest Passage.

3) Navigating Bloomington traffic in rush hour. ("Can your SUV stand up to an Icebreaker?! NO???! Then it's my right of way, biatch!")

4) Mobile supervillain lair.

5) Transportation device for living metorites and screwdriver-wielding half-Inuit detectives