January 2030 - Fyfe Family (part 1)
“If I wanted to spend my days digging
in the dirt I would have become an archaeologist,” muttered Violet Fyfe as she chiselled carefully at the desert rock. Violet usually loved
her job at The Curie Institute out at Oasis Falls but arriving at
work to find her name on the day's list to look for mineral
supplies in the desert compound had put her in a grumpy mood. She
knew she would go home covered in the orange desert dust, from her
shoes to her hair. On top of the dust, she was at a crucial point in
her research and it was frustrating to have to leave it for even a
day.
The sound of her phone gave Violet a
good an excuse to stand up and stretch. Although looking at the
caller ID gave her another reason to sigh. “Hi mum, how are you?”,
her mother often phoned her during the day, however many times Violet
pointed out that she couldn't always stop to chat in the middle of
her experiments. Days like today she did rather envy her mother's
clean, modern office, cluttered only with shelves of books and her
many whiteboards but theoretical physics had never appealed to her
the way it did to her mother and her passion for applied science
meant she still dreamt each night of inventing something that might
change people's lives.
Violet avoided going into details when
her mother asked how her day was going, complaining about work was
something she saved for Uziah when she got home. However she was
delighted to be able to report on Wesley's science fair project on
alien plant life and sports nutrition as she knew her mother always
enjoyed the opportunity to boast about her grandson's
achievements.
Having stopped for lunch, Violet went
back to her digging. She had found a couple of useful crystals but a
particular rock had caught her attention and she was becoming certain that something interesting lay within. Removing the strangely coloured
metallic substance she dashed into the lab to show it to Dora, her research
assistant.
A couple of hours later and the tests
and database searches confirmed it, she had found a sample of the
unusual metal, Crytunium. Suddenly the day that had started as a
dusty, boring dig had turned into a wonderful discovery. “This,”
Violet announced to Dora, “is the reason I love my job!”.
That's nice, her hard work paid off. Dust is so aggravating! I love the way the dust blows around on those Oasis Springs lots, but you described perfectly how it would be in your hair and everywhere!
ReplyDeleteThanks Shannon, it's lovely to know someone is reading this and (hopefully) enjoying it! I'm enjoying the science career as it does feel like their hard work pays off when they get new crystals and metals and invent exciting devices. It's certainly more interesting than waving them off to work and then pressing fast forward for several simhours!
ReplyDeleteSarah x