I'm becoming a Science and Engineering Ambassador! This may seem like an odd course of events for someone with:

• A degree in History
• A fear of Mathematics

But somehow I've blagged myself a career in IT and it turns out that's good enough. I'm totally sticking it to C.P. Snow!

Anyhow, yesterday was our SEA induction at the Institute of Physics (aka Party Central). I turned up and was trying to find the right room when a head appeared from behind the door

"Are you here for the Ambassadors' reception?"

I was and I went inside to be offered coffee, tea and biscuits. No Ferrero Rocher I noticed. So I piped up

"Has anyone made the obvious joke about the Ferrero Rocher and the Ambassadors' reception?"

I got a bit of a laugh (this is the Insitute of Physics remember - they are begging for laughs, to be honest). It was only later that I realised I'd cracked my first meta-joke - a joke about jokes, and taken my first step down the road of post-modern comedy.

Where will this road lead? Jokes about the funny faces people make telling jokes about the funny faces people make while having sex? Material like "Have you ever noticed... the way comedians only need to make a vague allusion to smoking and then "having the munchies" for an audience to collapse in fits of laughter at the dangerous shared-reference to recreational drugs?"

Then again my wise friend James Crawford once told me that you can replace the words "post-modern" in any sentence with the words "a bit crap" and always get a bit closer to the truth.

So maybe not.