• Question: What do you do in your spare time? Do you even get spare time?

    Asked by Sharkhead to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Not as much as I would like but I try to force myself not to work when I am at home. I like doing some sports, play piano, play board games and some computer games. As of late all my free time is fully dedicated to my 2 months old daughter.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      I do a lot of cheerleading/dance training through the week and I go to the cinema on weekends or when I get chance. I am a youth worker as well so I work with lots of children, young people and families of an evening which I love doing 🙂 and if I have time in between I’ll play on my xbox for a few hours or watch a movie on Netflix

    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Yes I have space time. I think life is about balance so I don’t take my work home with me.
      I love being outdoors, even in the winter, so I get out cycling, walking or running as often as possible – sometimes even in lunchtime at work. At home I have chickens and a cat which keep me entertained, and of course, there is the compulsory crashing out in front of the tv after a long day.

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Spare time… spare time… I think I remember that? I’m part of a doctoral training centre here at Heriot-Watt, which means on top of my usual PhD work I have to do a lot of courses which usually come with much more work to do than I’d like — I’m going through a particularly busy patch at the moment!

      Still though, I make time each week to go to the gym because when you’re job involves sitting at a desk for nine hours a day making time to go the gym is a good idea! When I get in in the evenings I like to play video and/or board games with my flatmates, as well as watching shows on Netflix, or reading books, or comics — I’m a big fan of British comics publisher 2000AD who publish Judge Dredd 😀

      I’m also a music lover — I have a collection of bass guitars, and when I was an undergraduate at Heriot-Watt I worked as a sound engineer at the student union. I still go back every now and then to help set-up and run the open mic night!

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