Bright Enough to Be Seen Breaking

Lab notebook, Day 1,247. The meteor hit Georgia at 12:25 PM. I was here, of course, re-running the same Western blot. They said it was rare - bright enough to be seen from orbit during daylight. Takes something larger than a beachball to pull that off. One in 3,000 reports. I've been burning through this program at 30,000 mph for three years. Bright enough that people notice, moving fast enough that I can't stop. The meteor left a hole in someone's roof in Henry County. Clean. Perfect. Devastating. That's what I think about when my PI asks how I'm doing. The fragments survived the atmosphere. I'm not sure what's left of me will survive this. #LabBurnout #GradSchoolLife #ScienceFatigue #Science