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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 Weird 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