Tuesday At home, proofreading my book on the 2006 Ballet Hoo! project. It's not yet clear when it will be published. But if it encourages local authorities and community arts organisations to work together with socially excluded young people, I shall be well pleased.
Wednesday To Cardiff to be interviewed. I've been helping academic colleagues there on police-related research for the past six months, and been paid on an ad hoc basis. Now the university there wants to interview me so that the arrangement can be formalised. It's very odd to be interviewed for a job that doesn't really exist and for which I never applied, but Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was always one of my favourite books. My experience is that interviewers are often more confused about their role than the people they're interviewing. Perhaps that lesson should become part of skills training for young people.
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