A Continuation of Buttered Mediocrity

Working in a lab may be a boring career for some that are adapted for outdoor pursuits, but this is my life and my choice. I was never the social star of my peers yet I was never an outcast or someone targeted as an object to make fun of, well no more than anyone else who succeeds in higher education. The thing is that it's all happened so quickly and my life seems over before it has begun. My name is Simon Bailey and I had expectations like everybody else. Perhaps I thought life was mapped out for me and that one day something would just click and that would be me, content. But it didn't happen like that or at least it hasn't yet.…