I've recently started sewing bigger pockets onto all my pants. Game changer!
Book recommendation on this theme: The Future by Naomi Alderman
I should note that the person holding the hose was *supposed* to aim it at the gannet, which we were washing, but accidentally aimed it at me instead while talking to the interviewer.
I absolutely *detested* that the physics exams we had in France were mostly about solving things *fast*. And I have not once in my following four years as a PhD student + two years as a postdoc felt that solving equations under high time pressure was a relevant metric for doing well in research.
(Plant shelf in question -- I'll probably have to break up the combination and sell the shelf, arch and lamp separately, but they fit *so nicely* together!)
-- regardless of resalability -- in the next place too, dammit. I resist this human living-space version of carcinisation, and I shall recreate my beloved plant shelf once again!
Gannet!
You are a wiser person than I am! Great picture :) Here's one I took the rescue center -- might even be same heron that almost got me.