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4) To meet and sleep with sex god.

4) To make interesting contacts in the publishing world, possibly even other
professions in order to find new career.

Oh God. Do not want to go to scary party. Want to stay home with bottle of wine
and watch Eastenders.

Tuesday 18 April

9st 7 (oh dear), cigarettes 30, calories (cannot bear to think about it), Instants 1
(excellent).

Party got off to a bad start when could nor see anyone that I knew to introduce to
each other. Found myself a drink then spotted Perpetua talking to James from the
Telegraph. Approached Perpetua confidently, ready to swing into action but
instead of saying 'James, Bridget comes from Northamptonshire and is a keen
gymnast' (am going to start going to gym again soon), Perpetua just carried on
talking - well beyond the two-minute mark and ignored me.

I hung around for a while feeling a total git, then spotted Simon from
Marketing. Cunningly pretending I had not intended to join Perpetua's
conversation at all, I bore down purposefully upon Simon, preparing to say,

'Simon Barnett!' in the style of Tina Brown. When I was almost there, however, I