I love movies. Movie studios hire people to drive round the world and find cool locations for movies. Old buildings, bits of desert, weird streets, rivers in jungles. They’re called “location scouts”. THAT’S the job I would have done.
Sport – no. I run. Used to play a lot of basketball. Spent the first 10 years of my life playing soccer. Hoping my boy will too, so I can use my skillz.
If I wasn’t a scientist, I would probably be a photographer. I love photography and I am lucky to have worked on a couple of film sets taking photographs of sets and actors, one was a really fun zombie movie.
When it comes to sports, I don’t take part in the well known sports. Once a week I go fencing. This isn’t putting up a fence, but instead I wear protective gear and face an opponent with a sword. Think Zorro but with less colour.
I used to train regularly in kendo until I hurt my back during a training session. That spelled the end of kendo for me. Kendo is a Japanese martial art where there’s a lot of screaming and hitting another person with a modified bamboo sword. Luckily we wear protective gear that makes us al look a little like samurais when training.
And for something more normal in sports, I have started cycling again.
This is going to make me sound like a total nerd but in my Year 7 report I got As for everything EXCEPT the physical component of physical education. I was good at the theory bit 🙂 Since then my enthusiasm for sport has increased a bit and I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. During Uni I went to the gym a lot and now I’m learning to run. As in I can run (for about 500 metres) but I’m working on getting up to a few kilometres.
If I wasn’t a scientist I would be a writer. Actually, that’s something I want to do anyway. I’d like to be a science writer and write fiction books too. I’ve always been interested in things that are a bit science-y, but that covers so many careers.
I also like photography and writing. Right now, not playing sport, though I used to play tennis and volleyball and swimming. Here is a nerdy song/poem. Chirality is all about the shapes of molecules and how they are named. Carvone is a substance that is either dill or peppermint, depending which mirror image you have. The song can be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace.
Amazing shapes: chir-al-i-ty, / That makes both right and left! / Car-vone does have e-nan-tio-mers / Diff’-rent tastes do they have.
One will be dill but o-ther be … / Pep-per-mint, pep-per-mint! / Four groups do make ste-reo cen-tres, / No more, or less, than four.
Pri-or-i-tise from 1 to 4, / By “Z”, the high-est first! / I-so-topes have same Z number / So use the mass instead.
Put lowest group away from you / Then see which way it goes! / Turn right is “R”, turn left is “S” / Chi-ral Ste-reo cen-tre.
Amazing shapes: chir-al-i-ty, / That makes both R and S! / Four groups do make ste-reo cen-tres, / No more, or less, than four.
I really wanted to be a soccer player when I was a kid. I started playing soccer for Bexley North soccer club when I was 9 and I was the only girl in my team until I was 14. When the boys got to fast for me, I started playing soccer in girls teams and I had heaps of fun playing in school rep teams at a state level. Then I joined the Sydney University team when I started uni and played there for four years.
However, I realised that I probably wasn’t going to earn any money from my sport – female soccer players don’t usually get paid much, if at all, and I wasn’t quite good enough to be picked in the top teams. Luckily I liked science as well – being able to play sport as well as study at uni was really fun.
I had to give up playing soccer a few years ago after some recurring injuries (hip, shoulder) but now I do a lot of running, swimming, cycling. I really like to keep fit and I’ve done a few small triathlons too.
When my dog Jess looks at me with her puppy-dog eyes and sniffs at her leash, it’s hard to stay lying on the couch – so we go for a run and sometimes for a swim too!
I love movies. Movie studios hire people to drive round the world and find cool locations for movies. Old buildings, bits of desert, weird streets, rivers in jungles. They’re called “location scouts”. THAT’S the job I would have done.
Sport – no. I run. Used to play a lot of basketball. Spent the first 10 years of my life playing soccer. Hoping my boy will too, so I can use my skillz.
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If I wasn’t a scientist, I would probably be a photographer. I love photography and I am lucky to have worked on a couple of film sets taking photographs of sets and actors, one was a really fun zombie movie.
When it comes to sports, I don’t take part in the well known sports. Once a week I go fencing. This isn’t putting up a fence, but instead I wear protective gear and face an opponent with a sword. Think Zorro but with less colour.
I used to train regularly in kendo until I hurt my back during a training session. That spelled the end of kendo for me. Kendo is a Japanese martial art where there’s a lot of screaming and hitting another person with a modified bamboo sword. Luckily we wear protective gear that makes us al look a little like samurais when training.
And for something more normal in sports, I have started cycling again.
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This is going to make me sound like a total nerd but in my Year 7 report I got As for everything EXCEPT the physical component of physical education. I was good at the theory bit 🙂 Since then my enthusiasm for sport has increased a bit and I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. During Uni I went to the gym a lot and now I’m learning to run. As in I can run (for about 500 metres) but I’m working on getting up to a few kilometres.
If I wasn’t a scientist I would be a writer. Actually, that’s something I want to do anyway. I’d like to be a science writer and write fiction books too. I’ve always been interested in things that are a bit science-y, but that covers so many careers.
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I also like photography and writing. Right now, not playing sport, though I used to play tennis and volleyball and swimming. Here is a nerdy song/poem. Chirality is all about the shapes of molecules and how they are named. Carvone is a substance that is either dill or peppermint, depending which mirror image you have. The song can be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace.
Amazing shapes: chir-al-i-ty, / That makes both right and left! / Car-vone does have e-nan-tio-mers / Diff’-rent tastes do they have.
One will be dill but o-ther be … / Pep-per-mint, pep-per-mint! / Four groups do make ste-reo cen-tres, / No more, or less, than four.
Pri-or-i-tise from 1 to 4, / By “Z”, the high-est first! / I-so-topes have same Z number / So use the mass instead.
Put lowest group away from you / Then see which way it goes! / Turn right is “R”, turn left is “S” / Chi-ral Ste-reo cen-tre.
Amazing shapes: chir-al-i-ty, / That makes both R and S! / Four groups do make ste-reo cen-tres, / No more, or less, than four.
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I really wanted to be a soccer player when I was a kid. I started playing soccer for Bexley North soccer club when I was 9 and I was the only girl in my team until I was 14. When the boys got to fast for me, I started playing soccer in girls teams and I had heaps of fun playing in school rep teams at a state level. Then I joined the Sydney University team when I started uni and played there for four years.
However, I realised that I probably wasn’t going to earn any money from my sport – female soccer players don’t usually get paid much, if at all, and I wasn’t quite good enough to be picked in the top teams. Luckily I liked science as well – being able to play sport as well as study at uni was really fun.
I had to give up playing soccer a few years ago after some recurring injuries (hip, shoulder) but now I do a lot of running, swimming, cycling. I really like to keep fit and I’ve done a few small triathlons too.
When my dog Jess looks at me with her puppy-dog eyes and sniffs at her leash, it’s hard to stay lying on the couch – so we go for a run and sometimes for a swim too!
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