Definitely my most impressive celebrity spotting yet – on my train this morning I managed to sit opposite Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye magazine (and apparently the most sued man in English legal history), who also hosts Have I Got New For You. He definitely qualifies as one of those celebrities I would genuinely like the opportunity to have lunch with, as opposed to most Hollywood celebs who are really just caricatures that are fun to point at and laugh. How I longed for him to clash heads with Ms Squeaky, but sadly, that showdown will have to wait for another day. True to form, he was armed with copies of the FT, Daily Mail, and The Times.

I’m off to the gym today – I figure it’s about time to use get some use out of the membership that I’ve been paying for each month. So much for my grand plans of joining the gym beneath the office so that I’d use it regularly – between my schedule, catching a train at a reasonable time, and client commitments, I haven’t used the gym once since I started my new job. Guessing from the emptiness of the gym, I’m not the only one in that boat.

This evening I’ve got another dinner with the new graduate recruits – where we sell them the consulting lifestyle and answer their questions over dinner in one of our boardrooms overlooking the Thames. They’re actually a lot of fun, and the three consultants tonight are a good laugh, so we should have a good time and hopefully convince a few of the recruits that working for a big operational consultancy is actually a lot more rewarding that working for McKinsey.