22 March 2016, 9 am
Today I am doing another endurance test. This test, like the one last Thursday, involves getting up at silly o’clock in the morning and not going to bed till gone midnight. In between the getting up and the going to bed I have to travel from deepest Zummerzet to central London, call at the flat I borrow to put the rubbish out, travel to somewhere else in central London and interview five IPReg Chair Hopefuls in quick succession, before travelling all the way back to deepest Zummerzet via a train that is as sleepy, as grubby and generally as bad-tempered as I am. The interviews have to be scheduled around the Hopefuls, because the Hopefuls are busy and important people and are having trouble fitting us into their diaries. This may indicate that they are not quite as Hopeful as we would like. One of them is not free to be interviewed until 6 pm, which means, I suspect, that he wants to watch Pointless first. We have been promised lunch in the middle of the gruelling interview schedule. I do not think lunch on its own will suffice. I have supplied details of my special dietary requirements, including the Red Bull® and the chocolate and the afternoon tea and the gin and tonic and the evening meal and the whisky chaser, but I think they assumed I was being flippant. In fact I was being deadly serious, as they will find out when I disappear gracefully under the table at 3 pm due to insufficient nourishment and an excess of sleepiness. Anyway, we have asked the Hopefuls, or rather the Not-Much-Fussed-Either-Wayfuls, to prepare a ten minute presentation for us about challenges and opportunities in the IP professions. If they come up with any good ideas, we can use them for the Regulatory Sandbox meeting I’m sponsoring. Or in our next Strategic Plan.
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