I've always had this idea in my head that it would be fun to spend a winter in Antarctica... but having a whole winter to spend doing this sort of thing isn't really likely to happen for me anytime soon. Besides, I'm not qualified for any of their positions except cook and/or general handyman/physicist.

I was wandering around the web during my lunchbreak and found this. Basically it's an application for being a "summit volunteer" at Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. They have a permanent staff of researchers and weather observers up there and they bring in a new volunteer every week to do the cooking and cleaning and general maintenance of the place. I'm totally qualified for that, and it doesn't take an unreasonable amount of time. You have to do it for a week in the summer before they'll let you do it in the winter... but still! I totally want to do this some year.

:)