nine hundred and sixty-eight
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008TV/living room
Moderate to strong
The Daily Show on the debate
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
The Daily Show on the debate
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Discussing the Credit Crunch
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
Late Show retro on BBC4, specifically, Mark Thompson on Maxwell
EAT, the Bull Ring
Moderate to strong
Waiting to go
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Demonstrating numbers
Kitchen
Moderate
Laundry
Upstairs, The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Strong
Interlude
TV/living room
Moderate
Trying to get Tom off my laptop
Fox Hollies Road, Hall Green
Moderate
Between Lidl and Waitrose
TV/living room
Moderate
Hanging curtains
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Writing a short essay thing about games and play
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
Measuring for curtains
Landing
Moderate to strong
Getting ready to go out
Back bedroom office
Moderate
The very last second of the Adam and Joe (Garth) podcast
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
The Brothers McLeod
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Leila and Greg’s Inevitable Podcast
Back Bedroom Office
Moderate
Saturday Night Fry Episode 2 on YouTube
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Saturday Night Fry Episode 1 on YouTube
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
The latest Granta, featuring The Flawed Cartographer by Catherine O’Flynn
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Tutorial in progress
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Marking students’ tests
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Going through students’ tests
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Thunderbird thinks this message is junk
Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Preparing the breakfast tray
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Quick headline scoop
Dining room
Moderate
Returning from a pudding reconnaissance trip
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Tuning in to Five Live for some final scores
Car, A491
Strong
Coming back from Clent, the sign tells us that the Belbroughton Scarecrow Weekend has been Cancelled
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Spanish grammar exercises
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Clicking “Publish” on Sneeze 933, but the sneeze meant the click didn’t work
Train, between Marylebone and High Wycombe
Moderate to strong
The table is vibrating and the trees are strobing the sunlight: it is medium level train torture
Upper foyer, National Theatre
Moderate to strong
Holding my newly purchased pristine second-hand first British edition of The Mezzanine
Southbound platform, Oxford Circus Tube
Moderate
Going to the National Film Theatre for BUG 09
Scooterworks, Lower Marsh, London
Moderate
Making a note about the decomposition of capital letters
Trafalgar Square
Moderate to strong
Walking to the river
Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London
Strong
This sequence brought to you by a sore bit of skin on the right side of my nose
Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London
Moderate to strong
Declan is leaving for Working Lunch
Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London
Moderate
Padding about in a robe
The Heights (restaurant/bar), St George’s Hotel, London
Mild
Gathering possessions to go
Train, approaching London
Moderate
Flicking through a discarded Times
Staffroom, Digbeth
Moderate
Email
Car, Stratford Road, Sparkbrook
Moderate
“Did you see that billboard for Estee Lauder?”
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Writing up sneeze 925 in the Sneezecount notebook
Bedroom
Moderate
A Thing About Machines leaflet
Car, outside “The Assembly Rooms”, Solihull
Moderate to strong
Waiting for C. to return from purchasing American Pastoral
TV / living room, Dorridge
Moderate to strong
Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin in the Sunday Times
TV / living room, Edgbaston
Moderate to strong
Trying (and largely failing) to work out how James and Sarah’s TV works
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
About to look up Supercool Design
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Nearly asleep
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Enquiry as to the quality of Philip Roth
Hall Green Launderama
Moderate to strong
Waiting for the dryer to finish with a bit of Delillo
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Researching Rene Cutforth
The Dirty Duck, Stratford
Moderate
Post-show chats with Amanda
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
“I’ve got it: France!”
Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Making some supper beverages
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate
Formatting a table (in MS Word) and listening “again” to Stephen Fry talking about language
Dining room
Moderate to strong
Tidying up, turning off lights
Hallway
Moderate to strong
Getting the Sneezecount notebook
TV / living room
Moderate to strong
Considering watching a Louis Theroux Wierd Weekend
Landing
Moderate
Looking for missing mitt
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Getting ready for bed
Kitchen / diner, Edgbaston
Mild
Sarah wants to learn how to make coffee
Stratford Road, Hall Green
Moderate to strong
Walking through heavy rain behind a man with an umbrella and a Waterstones bag
Foodcourt, Pavilions, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
Waiting
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Where to now, Internet?
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
“What do you want for breakfast?”
Escalator, Borders, The Bull Ring
Moderate
Descending
Bedroom
Mild
An alarm wake-up sneeze
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Clicking on “Radio 4″
Bedroom
Moderate
In bed with Charlie Brooker