dead beetles crawled into my eyes
You know what does not enhance your calm?
Trying to identify very small things. I don't care how great your microscope is - microsculpture is still hard to rotate and keep in focus. It helps to have a well-prepared specimen. It helps a lot, but it also helps to know what you're going to need to look at before you prepare your sample, and if your sample is an unknown? You won't know what you need to look at until you can't quite make it out under the scope, no matter how much you rotate and refocus the little monster. This only gets worse when your unknown is under a millimeter in length. Even if you knew what you had to move out of the way to see what you needed to see, getting a hold of a limb and gently moving it up and out and over without also completely removing it from the body as a whole is probably just as tricky as you might imagine.
How sharp are your microforceps?
How steady is your hand?
Now do it for five hours.
Now how steady is your hand?