“If you have been following my escapades in the field of cryptozoology, then you might be asking yourself what could life be like for an individual burdened with the Herculean task that is the relentless pursuit of Knowledge? I was once a tenured Professor at a prestigious educational institution that will remain nameless due to ongoing litigation. On that matter I will only say that most of my colleagues are frightened children, desperately clinging to whatever academic niche they’ve managed to carve out for themselves and once ensconced in positions of authority in their chosen field will defend the scientific status quo to the death, comfortable in their accolades and tenure scribbling away in their dusty offices publishing papers that only reinforce their own scientific prejudices never once daring to go beyond the bounds of current understanding nor even leave the grounds of their own universities.
I was even married once. It might surprise you to hear that my concrete objectivity could be porous enough to allow such things as emotion to cloud my judgement. However, I am after all a human male so the instinctual desire to pass on one’s genetic code is quite difficult to suppress. The arena of academic achievement takes no prisoners which left little time or energy to sustain an emotional attachment to my chosen mate at an acceptable intensity. Apparently, I was “physically and emotionally unavailable” which led my wife to engage in a tawdry affair with the coach of the men’s soccer team. I couldn’t believe she would have any interest in such a primitive representative of the species. My profound intellect and dedication to my field were not deemed sexy at the end of the day.
She left me shortly after I discovered the affair and confronted them both. After this incident I realized that now that I had put aside the baggage that accompanies normal life that I was free to commit myself wholly to my work having escaped the clutches of “love” a ridiculous notion that has no place in the mind or body of the scientific gladiator and in fact my ex-wife’s betrayal would become a boon to the human race.
Dr. Milo Meeker’s Field Notes 