Currently, I am completing my MA in English Literature at Queen Mary University. I was recently contacted by the Students Union to assist in the sabbatical elections for next year. These are the videos which have caused my name to now circulate around the QM campus;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rKXqK19dC4&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayG43FReENs&feature=channel
(there are more links on the right, but these two candidates are very colourful)
Taking tha purple board back (which I used to put behind each candidate before filming them several times!) was an absolutely arduous task today. It was in the Students Union and I needed to take it back to the Queens building, and it was raining, so I thought, 'improvise.' It was after my lecture, and my class (of two other women) and I were due at the Dr Williams library to meet Isabel Rivers. So I hailed down the man with takes all the trash out in this useful little buggy he uses. I told the women on my course to wait, standing in the rain, with my bag, so we could head to the train station together as we didn't know where the library was. I convinced the buggy man that i'd spoken to his boss who had okay'd the use of the buggy for the transportation of the board. He said, 'fine', and helped me load the massive board onto the back. I climbed in, and we were off, and it was through the little window of the buggy that I saw the two women on my course looking at me driving off, in sheer disbelief and anger, as i'd left them with my huge bag! I drove the board back to the Queens building, and the Publictaions Office all cheered the safe return of their board. Then I got a call from one of the women on the course, who said, 'we have your bag, come to the station before it goes missing!' Right. Ran down to the station, to find they were fortunately there. Apparently they'd planned to hide it, but it was too heavy, and they hadn't gotten far. We got to the librray in the end, though my day really ended at 7pm, as I had to head back to whitechapel to teach. The sacrifices we have to make for QM!
