I’m off to Berlin tomorrow, for Games and Decisions in Pragmatics II. I just went online to book a hostel (after procrastinating for the past week for various not-very-good reasons), only to discover that online booking needs several days notice. And no phone-numbers in evidence. So we’ll see how things pan out when I arrive — I get in at 5pm, so there’s still a bit of time to find something I suppose. But expect possibly some tales of mayhem when I get back. You’ll be sad to hear that my Christmas parcel from my mother included not one but two compasses (she knows me well), thus diminishing the likelihood of more of my usual “I got lost in X European city” stories. You’ll just have to hope I forget to take ’em with me. I don’t have a map, which is promising…