Invisible Bullets

I was watching a show called Flip This House this afternoon. Maybe you've seen it. These people buy old beatup houses, fix em up and sell them to make a profit. This episode was interesting though. They found an old bayonette in the basement of the house they bought. Long story short, they brought in an expert on the paranormal. She had these EM detectors. They supposedly can tell if a ghost is in the room. The other two who were there got really scared because this little thing on a keychain kept buzzing. They got freaked and eventually just left. Kinda got me thinkin about things we think are around us, not necessarily ghosts, that trip us up or hold us back from finding the truth about things. Not only do we, i guess I should say I, let these "invisible bullets" keep me from throwing myself into the chaos, I use them as excuses and try to convince myself of why I shouldn't throw caution to the wind and dive in.

Now this could apply to anything really: bad, good, moral, immoral. Lately I've been so caught up in thinking about where I am going to work for the summer. I'm really getting worried about finishing university and not having any real job experience that I could contribute to a career. The old cliche is seeming more true now than when I had big pipedreams in first year of finding a new drug that will revolutionize the pharmaceutical pipeline: overeducated, underexperienced.
I talked to my lab professor and he said that there just aren't many jobs available for students in my field for the summer. You need to be an A+ student(which I'm not), have a parent high up in a pharm. company(which I don't), or get an NRC summer scholarship(which u need to be pretty much an A+ student to get one). So where does that leave me? I've applied for at least 12-15 jobs online, but I'm having doubts that my online resume submission actually got to where it was supposed to go. And to compound the issue, my boss from last summer, and previous terms, offered me the job I had last year at the tree farm place. I guess it's good to have job security like that at my age but I feel I need to apply myself and gain some career worthy experience. Ramble, Ramble, Ramble...

So, where does that leave us? I dunno, but this past week has been interesting. Thursday night I had an interesting conversation with a friend. Things that surfaced surprised me a little. And then friday I accidentally sprayed a girls face with silica slurry. If you're not familiar with this chemical, just do a google search for "silica msds" to see how bad this stuff is. Luckily she only got it in her mouth. Wearing safety goggles is a strict safety protocol in our lab and they paid off as the slurry literally covered her goggles and solidified within seconds. So you can imagine how great I felt knowing I almost compromisd someone's eyesight for the rest of their life.

Well, that's the way she goes this week.
In the soothing wisdom of a cartoon friends of mine made up...."FIRE THE CANNONS!"

Jrockstar

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