While I was at Warwick, I was quite heavily involved in the Postgraduate Committee. You'd be surprised. I used to be the Science Faculty postgraduate representative on the Board of Graduate Studies. Back then we wondered if it was time that the Sir Frank Whittle Bar had some postgraduates actually in it, and since it did then some vacation events got organised for those of us that don't go home ever. It was all a quest to find a peer group to relate to. Eventually I retreated to the level of writing a few more recent Word articles, and then I just left the enthusiastic new lot to it.
I play the bass for a band called the Sunflowers, if the planets are lined up and there happens to be a gig on. I also toke the position of guitarist-on-call for MTW and the like, what with playing in Crazy For You (May 2000), Cabaret (June 2000, I think that was WUDS) Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (November 2000) which included playing the guitar with an empty aftershave bottle and some excitingly sight-read depping on bass. My homemade flanger did a great job during the Rocky Horror (weekend) Show (January 2001) and I broke my D-string doing the Timewarp. (I know what you're thinking, and G-strings never break.)
Anyway, the Graduate bar apparently went from strength to strength up until the point when they demolished it.
I play the classical guitar a bit: for the four-and-a-bit years that I was at Warwick University doing my PhD, I had lessons with Brian Penny. Now that I'm in Italy I try to generally avoid television but I listen to the radio instead, whilst buying DVDs of old English TV comedy shows from Amazon and blogging about homeopathy and religion.
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Last updated: 14th May 2008
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