First course committee of the academic year this afternoon. Fairly unthrilling as ever. But I had a good moment when they were discussing the new 'technical masters' course. I had my laptop out to save printing all the paperwork and did a quick google on the subject - so when they got bogged down over a particular bit and I'd happened to find a briefing paper I could supply a quick answer. Never quite sure at that point whether to own up to what I've done or sit there looking very intelligent and on the ball!

Of course, I let myself down a little later when just for five minutes I popped into Facebook to take a Scrabulous turn at just the moment the academic nearest me asked to check something on the intranet! Ah well.