Good luck getting it my dear Renster
If anybody deserves it, you do, you are a bright young lady with a great deal of potential, inasmuch as I am capable of determining such from the vantage point I have.
But inasmuch as I know you, you damn well deserve it, you fucking GO Ren.
I'd cross my fingers, if I believed there was anybody up there to see it. As it is, the thought will have to do, since I don't have god on speed dial.
*atheist version of a prayer for you* ^:^
*and a big squeeze for good luck* If those buggers know a good deal when they see one, then you'll get it.
I have to admit, though, if it were a choice between mining, and working in a bank, I'd take going down a pit any day of the week.
Although I confess, I'd be packing a little test kit of my own, and anything that looked like platinum, palladium, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium or osmium or their ores, I'd be clocking off with my pants and socks stuffed with ore and doing some refining of my own, putting it down to...extra-curricular training....