15:14: get on the metro, put down my bag and take off my hat. Lean back on the door.
15:16: train at Diego de Leon.
15:20: a man moves around his electric scooter on the metro, it looks heavy. He turns with his back to me.
15:22: we’re at Alonso Martínez; electric scooter man gets off, a man asking for money gets on. He says that he can’t get work.
15:25: the doors try to close but second guess themselves. They move back, and then, finally, close. I’ve been standing here for ten minutes, although I’ve moved halfway across Madrid.
15:36: reef falls off the door as I walk in.
15:38: take my coat off.
15:47: I put the kettle on.
15:50: bite into a burger, kettle’s boiled and washing machine whirring in the background. The kitchen is lit in blue fluorescence.
16:05: listening to Sunny Afternoon, I drink my cup of tea and think about my lesson later.
16:07: Gloomy Sunday comes on.
16:11: I put a USB stick in my computer to move some materials across.
16:12: received a Facebook message from David.
16:21: uploading an article on nature vs nurture onto class blog.
16:24: moving my hair around.
16:27: I can hear an email notification on my iPad, and then on my phone. I wait for it to arrive on my computer, it doesn’t.
16:28: I find something I like in teaching unplugged.
16:32: it arrives on my computer, not before I pour myself two glasses of water and walk back from the kitchen. By which point I’ve already checked my phone.
16:51: Honey on toast.
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