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Apart from a long delay on the tubes in this morning, today was humdrum. Hard work, but humdrum. I think the weekend wore me out - it was probably yesterday morning’s early hike across the floodplain. I find all these appraisals tiring, too, and I had two today, which kept me in the office until half seven. Still, with eight done now there’s only two to go, so by Wednesday afternoon they’ll be all but signed off.

I struck gold today with guests for the show. Most Mondays we’re still wondering who we should invite to fill the last couple of spots, but I wrote a note on SourceWire this morning outlining our ‘technology of the future’ idea and saying we were on the lookout for people who would be happy to talk about what they think the future holds.

Thinking nothing of it, I sent it off and went to a meeting for the next hour and a half. I got back to my email to find 49 new messages in my inbox, all from PR companies offering between one and four guests to speak on the show. It didn’t stop there, either. I’d opened some sort of PR floodgates, and every couple of minutes the new mail icon jumped up on my screen.

By the time I went home, there were 85 messages offering well over 100 guests. That’s almost enough to do six months’ worth of shows on one subject alone.

Now I have the unfamiliar problem of having to trawl through them all picking out the best and sending ‘no thank you’ notes to the rest. It’s going to take forever. I feel a bit guilty whinging about it, because it’s a real luxury to have so many people clamouring to get on, but it’s suddenly become far more work than the weeks when we have hardly anyone at all.

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