Awesome Sauce

[kaitou]

So a few years ago when I finished the first draft of Penny and winning Nanowrimo for the second time, I used a chunk of my yearly bonus to get myself a really awesome piece of jewelry. I got an alexandrite necklace. The idea that it changes color depending on the light fascinated me. But I could never see a difference between it inside and outside, it was always a red-violet color. I wasn't too upset because I know good alexandrite is expensive, and maybe I got some with a very weak color change, and that's why it was in my price range.

Then last month my old halogen desk lamp gave up the ghost. The whole light section just fell out of it. I replaced it with a fluorescent light that I hoped would be brighter (totally wasn't) and then yesterday I wore the necklace. I took it off and put it down on my desk and...

Holy cow, it was green!

Three years later it DOES work! So awesome.

Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

That's so cool... it's one of Amy/Changeling's favorite stones, too. (So much so that I bought her a pair of lab-created earrings.)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

After college I worked for an asian antiquities store that was right above a jewelry store owned by the same guy. I put together new websites for both shops, and in the process learned a lot of neat things about gemstones. This quickly became a favorite one.