8 November 2017, 9 am
I arrive early in London and dump my suitcase at the flat that my kindly friend is still letting me borrow. He is looking for a polite way to ask me to give the keys back please. From there, I head into CIPA to do a bit of work. I sit at Mr Davies’s desk. The others tell me to. Only later does it emerge that Mr Davies hates other people sitting at his desk and moving his stuff around, and now he is going to be Livid with me. The others are going to find that very entertaining. It is a momentous morning, in more ways than one. For a start, Twitter® has switched to allowing 280 characters per tweet instead of 140. I am proud of myself because amazingly, due to spending the early hours of the morning on a train, I found out about this before Mr Lampert, who is supposed to be our Chief Shouty and Twittery Person. There is of course outcry among the Twitter-using community, who are now going to have to put more punctuation in their tweets simply to pad them out!!!!!!!!! I quietly get on and make use of the new verbal laxity to tweet rambling and largely incoherent messages about the workshop I am running this afternoon. The second momentous thing to happen is that our super new IP Inclusive business cards have arrived. These new cards are printed on both sides so that they cannot be appropriated for shopping lists or phone numbers or coded messages between conference delegates. On one side they say IP Inclusive and on the other they say Careers in Ideas. In both cases the business cards are about the most properly official things we possess, apart from the bank account that we have at long last – thanks to Mr Bader at CITMA – acquired for the money we do not have. Before I leave CIPA, I make sure to leave lunch crumbs all over Mr Davies’s desk, to turn his phone charger round and to move his pen to a different position. By the time he finds out, I will be safely out of reach.
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