It's New Year's Eve 2011 and I'm sitting in the emergency dentist's waiting room with toothache. So severe is the pain emanating from my upper left premolar that I can barely twitch without gasping in agony. Suddenly, I notice a lady in a yellow dress and my heart leaps - she's reading a Kindle! Immediately, I dive into my bag, where I have a wallet full of business cards. I'm going to sell her a copy of Straight Out of University, if it's the last thing I do. Every cloud has an amalgam lining ....