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Mrs W: was a convert to Catholicism, and regularly told me that she was praying for me. Harmless enough, but this was attached to the stories she told about being "trapped in a bubble of EVIL at university", and then how I was like her at university...

Mr D: both a Classics teacher and Deputy Head. Very strange split personality; as Classics teacher was incredibly enthusiastic, very funny, really rather camp: as Deputy Head was stern authority figure. He'd be in the middle of a great anecdote in class, see somone up to no good outside and flip into Deputy Head.

The supply French teacher - ours went on maternity leave. There arrived a woman with a mullet who would bring a guitar to lessons, sit on the front desk and sing French songs to us. I think we were too stunned to misbehave.

Dr H: actually a university tutor. It's educational, as a first year, to be sat in the pub having a quiet pint and watch as one of your tutors is becoming more and more agressively and incoherently drunk, until two other members of the department carry him home.
(mw, Wed 9 Nov 2005, 19:28, Reply)