I recently changed jobs after seven years teaching in my local school district. I now drive an hour to work every morning, and an hour home every night. I made this change after months of soul searching, asking advice from nearly everyone I know, and generally expecting to receive some sort of "sign" from the Universe that I was making the correct decision. I teach 8th grade science and I was recently gathering items for a lab activity for my classes. I personally own several graduated cylinders, but I was looking to find more at my new school site. I did not find what I was looking for. I was hoping to find an assortment of 10 ml, 25 ml, 50 ml, and 100 ml glass graduated cylinders. Instead I found several large plastic ones. I quickly re-wrote my lab procedures to match the available equipment and then started looking at catalogs to find a good price for the graduated cylinders that I need for my students. I was thinking about how I was going to talk my husband into spendi