Today, I had coffee with Sima, the young woman who recruited me to work at Company 2. Actually I had a coke, I thought that was somehow less childish than ordering a hot chocolate (I don't do coffee). I retrospect, I don't think so. There was someone else there, also from the company that recruited me. They were asking me how things were, and pumping me for information, trying to gauge if there would be new positions opening up there. I think Company 2 is a bit like the Golden Goose for them. They told me that the folks I'm working for at Company 2 have been happy with the work that I've been doing. This always surprises me, because I don't think I actually work very hard. When I was in the kindergarten and the teacher would say “All right, time to clean up”, while all the other kids were busy putting things away, I was busy looking like I was putting things away. I think fundamentally that unaltered strategy guides me to this day.

Today I trekked into the city to get Jasper Fforde's latest book The Fourth Bear. If you like Douglas Adams, or Terry Pratchett, you might like Fforde. I first heard of him when he did an interview on NPR in which he read a passage from his then latest book, where Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is forced to decide what kind of coffee to get when he steps into a modern (198x) coffee shop and is bewildered by the insurmountable choices (Hamlet being well known for his indecisiveness). Maybe you had to be there.

I was pleased to learn than Fforde's next book will be a Thursday Next novel.

Tonight I went to see the Australian film Jindabyne. See it if you get the chance.