Sunday, February 21, 2016

4am self-realizations

This is either really profound and life-changing, or I'm just delirious and probably going to fail this lung test I failed to study for come Monday.

Anyway....

I don't know what it is - maybe it's because of my newly acquired knowledge of pulmonology (although let's be honest, I don't know s#&\ because I didn't study and made a "get-well" card for President Garrett instead), or maybe it's because I'm actually being exposed to the interesting side of public health research - I am gaining this even more intense intellectual curiosity to study the effect of sulfur mine inhalation on sulfur miners of Kawah Ijen (the volcano, read more about it here).

I mean, the effects can't be good. But no one in the last 100 years that I could find has studied it. There are simply not enough resources there, not enough people who care, plus it's too limited of a niche to gain any attention.

I am going to explore this possibility.

^ so that's what I felt like first, which (along with my intense investment in the "get well" card) then made me realize something about myself.

That I'm a pretty... fiery person.

What I mean is, when I'm overcome with passion for something, I really don't immediately think about the... rationale of doing it. I more think about the feasibility. Kind of like - Hmm I really care about this, ok can I actually do it? How? Will it hurt anyone/anything? Aiiii let's go!

Instead of a "Hmm hold your horses Jenny, is this worthy, should I do it?" Nah, really none of that.

I love me.



P.S. Writing this post was probably the worst idea, because
1) If you're reading this, you're probably sitting there like "Jenny I knew that wayyy long ago, fuck you for wasting 5 minutes of my life."
2) I'll probably regret this tmr. If I even remember.

But fuck it. I wanted to, I could, and it isn't going to hurt anyone or anything, so, I did.
I'm actually really proud of this. Couldn't have done it without some talented classmates (Christina and Connie though)