About
Hi, my name is Dan Connolly.
I live in the UK and work for the University of Warwick Students’ Union.
The last book I read that was a truly unexpected joy was Baudolino (and just to make sure it wasn’t that I read it on my somewhat ill-fated Xmas ‘07 trip to Copenhagen I re-read it and enjoyed it as much the second time round). I used to think that the best thing that had ever been on television was The West Wing but I’m starting to think it’s probably The Wire. I used to be a bit of a hardcore gamer (PC) but it seems with each console I purchase (Wii, 360) I play less.
I enjoy cooking, drawing, playing music, basketball and travelling - which makes it seem all the more stupid that I don’t do these things very often. I wish I could speak Japanese and do a cartwheel.
I am also a bit lot of a geek.
Update 24/10/2009
I intended to update everything once I’d been doing this for a year, but given that my first post was in September last year but my second wasn’t until January this seemed like a good enough mid-point.
Since I started this I’ve become an uncle (though I’ve yet to meet my niece) and gained a brother-in-law, my 360 has been stolen (along with my old Powerbook and iPod Nano) the loss of which appears to have disproved my increase in consoles = decrease in gaming rule and I’m still no closer to speaking Japanese or doing a cartwheel.
Of cooking, drawing, playing music, basketball and travelling I’ve failed to do more of the last two. On the cooking front I tend to flit between cooking extravagant feasts and living off takeaways and I’m on the way to drawing more (I’m even threatening to try out some ink and wash paintings) but I think the one I’ve actually managed to do more of is playing music - even though to achieve it I had to splash out on an electric piano (though it was worth every penny).
My most popular post tags tell me my favourite things to wax lyrical about are: Japan, Star Wars, Mythical Creatures and Mario with honourable mentions for Rugby and Kittens.
