grendel

I've made a fairly major life decision and it involves Maryland. (first, a bit of an aside. I'm feeling kind of guilty writing in this journal. Like I'm neglecting my real journal. It sits there looking at me with accusing eyes. Batman on the cover is getting jealous. And you can't doodle in the SG journal. Hmmm. I may have to spread the love around)

Anyway, Maryland. I think I've sort of given up(?) the dream to become a forensic entomologist/ME. I know that's all I've bloody talked about to everyone for ages, but I've been doing a lot of thinking here and have decided to give beekeeping another go.

As soon as I thought that, and made contact with a few folks I know, I got an e-mail offering me a research tech position in Maryland with the opportunity to work on a PhD in a World Comparative varroa management high input/low input/no input control systems. It sounds like I'd have the opportunity to travel back to New Zealand, maybe do some work over in Vietnam, and possibly some stuff in Europe. All for comparitive reasons, of course.

Now, I don't believe in god at all, but this just seems weird that I was fighting for so long trying to get this forensics bit to work out. I kept hitting brick walls, but as soon as I started looking into the bee research again an opportunity like this came up (it's not solid yet, and I don't want to jinx it, so I'm not getting my hopes up to TO much).

Anyone else run into a situation like that? Where you keep avoiding the most suitable path just. . . because?

I'm more excited than a pack of randy billy goats on milking day (and boy-howdy, that's pretty damn excited).

I'm going to go grin like a dork for a while longer.