I lie awake being scared.
The President is losing her voice.
So I am scared that if she does not find it again by Wednesday, I may
have to chair the Council meeting in her stead.
To be fair, I am probably not the only person who is scared
by this prospect.
I am not surprised the President is losing her voice. She works harder than almost anybody I
know. While I am wandering around the
country basically looking for tea parties to go to, she is out at proper
serious meetings with proper serious people, explaining CIPA’s position on
things I didn’t even realise had happened.
While I am jumping up and down shouting about changing stuff and new
projects, she is quietly getting on and making things happen. And while I am writing a not-so-serious diary
about Biscuit Pixies and pantomimes, the President is writing letters to the
Baroness IP Lady Minister and the presidents of overseas IP groups.
She also has a proper day job, which she must surely be
doing in a parallel universe because there is no way she would have enough time
to do it in this one. In my parallel
universe I am mostly watching washing machines go round; every now and then I
turn up to the day job and meddle a bit and nick some paper clips, but although
I enjoy this very much it is not exactly high-powered.
The best thing about our President is that she can act
really scary when she wants Council to shut up and listen. But if you sit her down with a drink and some
CIPA members to talk to, she is nice as pie.
She is also, despite being scary on Council, a Proper Woman. Unlike me, she can look after a handbag
properly. She can choose elegant clothes
and fashionable shoes and she knows how to wear them without looking like she’s
tripped over a dressing-up box. Yet she
can talk about patent law like she is Wikipedia personified, and if she did
that to me in oral proceedings I would staple myself to my files in despair.
Maybe the answer, if she still has no voice on Wednesday, is
for me to sit behind the President with a script. I can talk; she can mime and look scary. I will try to stick to my script better than
Mr Parkinson Davies did.
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