Stolen from  tokyoghoststory   

Mason City

..., all the big gem cutting schools are out in California, and I was much too young to take advantage of that when I lived in San Diego. Which is a shame too, because I particularly loved minerology. Minerals are so orderly, so beautiful. It never ceases to amaze me how you can take a jumble of molten hot plastic, let it slowly cool, and get an amazing plethora of minerals whose chemical structure ...