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[ex_pipistre]

I finally got around to buying some plants for my garden. Largely prompted by some posh woman picking up the clematis I was ogling, which made me go 'Noo! I was buying that!', and thus having to buy it. I then had to rush off to Homebase for a planter (my garden hasn't got any soil or beds for plants) and push 80kg of soil home in a shopping

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[gothman63]

On a shopping trolley, the trailing wheels are fixed. When you're shoving it uphill, more of its weight is carried by the trailing wheels, therefore the tendency to 'nose' is reduced. Simple mechanics!

(This may not actually be scientific fact, but it sounds like a good theory, and I'm a fount of good-sounding theories what I've just made up off the top of my head!)

[somekindofpeace]

Are you a fly geneticist by any chance? Reading what you're writing your thesis on makes me think so, btu I nothing of these things. I only ask because my sister is and is having trouble with her thesis since she no longer has a superviser...

[ex_pipistre]

I'm kind of a wannabe fly geneticist- I work on bacteria at the moment but would much prefer to work on flies because bacteria are just...weird. What happened to your sister's supervisor? Mine's been away a lot and it's been tough at times because of that.

[sadaku]

Don't become a teacher. Not if you want to stay optimistic and still love science in four years time.

[ex_pipistre]

Why not? I'm used to teaching students who don't care or do any work by now and have come to realise it's not personal when they're rude or even aggressive. The thing that I'm worrying about isn't the kids, it's the bureaucracy invovled in schools because I'm not the sort of person who takes kindly to being told what to do.

[sadaku]

Well, I'm sure your experience will be different. Go for it then!

[ex_pipistre]

I wasn't discounting what you said at all (obviously, you're a teacher and I'm not), I was just wondering why you say that, and if you're referring to kids or to working in a school in general? I couldn't really tell from your comment if you meant that teachers end up disillusioned because of the pupils or the national curriculum (the latter is a major worry for me, frankly)!

Personally, if I try and think of things I'd like to do, teaching is one of them. I like teaching at the university. I'm not laboring under the idea that it's an easy option compared to doing research.