30 June 2016, 4 pm
Now it is time for a teleconference about our new Women in IP network. We have been trying to organise this for some time, only the women in IP were busy. As it is, we can only fit in this teleconference by doing our ironing at the same time. Our first task is to organise a launch event. We wonder whether we should have a single, hot-shot, high-flying speaker to inspire us, or a panel of speakers from different backgrounds, some of whom are hot-shot and high-flying and some of whom are ordinary. We decide that sometimes it is a bit wearying, being inspired by hot-shot high-flyers. So a panel will be better, and we will include some ordinary women on it, and people like me, who cannot even hold down a proper job let alone juggle it with being a domestic goddess. We have to finish at 5 pm so that we can all go off and collect our children or cook tea, or finish our patent drafts before we cook tea, or in my case find out what’s happened to Grandma. It goes without saying that we have each of us been doing at least two other things during the teleconference. We are women. We can multi-task. Our brains are specially wired for this. Personally I think we should have some hot-shot, high-flying men on the launch event panel. They will be able to let us in on their Secrets of Success, for example how to get away with doing only one thing at a time and people still thinking you’re brilliant. And how convenient it is to have a brain that is specially wired for not doing more than one thing at a time, this being a perfect reason to be left alone to concentrate on the one thing while other people with multi-wired – although clearly inferior – neurological apparatus juggle the rest of life’s petty problems in the background.
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