Mining school.
When I was in college my minor was mining. Why? I don’t know, I just dug it. In the end I flunked out of the class but they wouldn’t refund my money so I guess I got the shaft, I just didn’t get mining. I even wrote poems about “somewhere ore the rainbow…” but all I got was fool’s gold. I tried to mine some quicksilver but it was, well, too quick. There was no market for slow silver, at least at that time. I once thought a small bird on a branch was trying to tell me there was a solder mine at... Sign in to see full entry.