Synthetic Gems: Mystery

Sort by the time stamp on the bottom of the gems. It sounded simple enough, but after only squinting at them for two hours, Megan was exhausted. She'd thought that being a quality control person on the synthetic gems production line would be fabulous. After all, it would mean she was surrounded by the shining gems all day long. It just *had* to be more cheerful than working at some grease-laden fast food job, and she hadn't gotten the scholarship she'd wanted to go to college. This was a dead-end job, too, but she figured that she'd work her way around that, somehow. She'd wanted to be a mathematician, but she admitted that since it was an idea that she'd only come up with in the last two weeks of high school, she wasn't entirely surprised that the colleges hadn't seen fit to award her a huge scholarship, despite her high test scores and good grades--though to be fair, the grades

Inspiration: Minneapolis Public Library, sort by due date
Story Potential: Medium-high.
Notes: A series of mystery stories, based on the idea that Megan is a person with incredibly high potential, who learns a wide variety of things quickly, but can't settle on any one thing (or job).