My share of room 231

I live in room 213 building 155 in McMurdo Station Antarctica. I have 3 room mates with just enough room  to get dressed and store our gear without getting into each others way.The bed is rock hard and the pillow is flat but I am so tired after work that I sleep great. Besides dorm rooms ,building 155 also houses the galley (eating area) the store, ATM, computer room and some administration offices. I am happy to be living in this building.  I can go to breakfast without having to put all my cold weather clothes on first  like almost everyone else does. After breakfast I go back to my room and put on my cold weather  work clothes which consists of  thermal underwear , fleece pants , arctic weight Carharrt overalls, a heavy weight Carharrt flannel shirt and an arctic weight Carhartt Coat. I also wear a fleece neck gator ,a knit ski hat, glove liners and insulated leather gloves. I carry a survival bag with extra cold weather clothes, goggles, a water bottle and chapstick. The humidity is less than 10% here and a person dehydrates  very quickly.  It is 235 steps from the door of building 155 to building 140 where the cargo office is located. We share the building with air field services and the Post Office. Once I get to work we receive the info about what planes are coming in that day and the cargo will be coming in and going out. We then load outgoing cargo onto 10,000 pound Air Force 463L pallets and stage it on the sea ice  air field. When the plane arrives we offload  the cargo and passengers and  drive back to McMurdo. After we inventory the arriving cargo we deliver it to the appropriate department. We then clean our area , set up for the next day and go home. I work a 12 hour shift from 6 am to 6 pm. We have 53 C-17 and over 300 LC-130 missions planned for this season. The work is hard but very interesting. I am outside most of the day and get to see everything that is going on at the air field  and in McMurdo. When I get home from work I take a hot shower first thing to get warmed up and then eat dinner. The food here is excellent. Fresh food  comes in at irregular schedules and is known as 'Freshies."  The galley offers all you can eat meals and offers a couple of choices of entree at every meal. Every Weds for lunch is Mexican food and every Sat dinner is Italian so I get my 2 favorite food groups. They also make wonderful desserts for every meal which is pretty hard for me to say no to.  After I eat dinner I usually do a few quick emails and a bit of net surfing , clean my room area and if need be I do laundry. I am usually in bed by 8:30 PM read for half an hour or so and get up at 5 AM to start all over again.