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Yesterday after leaving the internet cafe (well, actually, it’s more like a camera shop with WiFi and snacks), I went back to the hotel and just bummed around for a bit because Claire was supposed to meet us at the hotel at 7:30.  However, she was running late and didn’t make it to us until about 8:10.  Charles, Mike, Claire, and I went around to Soho and ended up at a Thai restaurant that was pretty good.  Mike said the curry he had there was one of the best meals he had on this trip thus far.

From there, Claire brought us up to one of the pubs she frequents, The Albany, on Great Portland Street.  It was pretty a pretty good and we had some good conversation until the three of them started talking about African development.  Unfortunately, that’s one of the areas of the globe that I have only a cursory knowledge of, so my contribution to the discussion was resultingly minimal.  However, it was good to see Claire again, since I hadn’t seen her in about two years when she came to New York to visit her parents and Seth.

We got home around 12am and went to bed.  I woke up around 8, grabbed a breakfast and a Starbucks for class and then headed to the room at Birkbeck.  Today’s discussion was surprisingly not about yesterday’s visit to Canary Wharf, but rather, some presentations about corporate governance here in Europe.  Seema and Tim presented a little on the scandals at Hollinger International and at Vodafone Mannesmann, while Amish had a little bit to discuss on the comparative structures of corporate governance.  In spite of the subject matter, we broke at 12:15 for the day.

After grabbing some Subway for lunch, I did my laundry around 2 on this place off Southhampton Row on Tavistock.  While waiting for my wash to complete, I wandered around and managed to find this little outdoor mall, The Brunswick, that had a bunch of small shops including a Waitrose, Starbucks, FCUK, sushi restaurant, and more.  When I got back to put my clothes in the dryer, I took advantage of the down time to write up and mail out some postcards.

I got in and came out here to the cafe, but will probably meet up with Amish, Mahesh, and Professor Flowers at 7 to go to some Indian food on Brick Land.  Tomorrow’s visitation is at IBM and I’m also working on trying to get us into the Financial Times, however the secretary hasn’t called me back.