An executive meeting of the faculty operations today which is another first for me. Don't recall anything quite like it at TheOldPlace.

I'd been tasked with putting together a 15 minute briefing on who I was and my role in the faculty.

Little daunting with the dean and all his heads of department there (one of whom - from the math department - had seen some of the material), but it seemed to go ok and raised some interesting discussion.

Later on there was a lunchtime DVD presentation on pensions from finance which was both entertaining and depressing at the same time and then a meeting that I'd expected to take about 20 minutes towards the end of the day actually went on for 75 minutes and rather put an end to H and I rehearsing for tomorrow morning. Still, as we race past each other our presentation seems to be taking shape nicely.