I hit a bit of a productivity roller-coaster today, by powering through the morning doing all sorts of things
only to go and ruin it by breaking for lunch and watching several episodes of The Simpsons with Jack. He’d already been for quite a long
run around the park this morning, but for the sake of getting away from the
telly I took him for a walk around the block for a toilet opportunity (him, I
go before leaving the house).
For the last few weeks I have
been recording The Sound of Nottingham UK on a
Thursday as it puts me under less pressure. I assume that it gets listened to
before broadcast, so I like to get it in nice and early. When I record it on a
Thursday I have the luxury of time to be able to fuck things up and start
again, before sending it over the Atlantic and starting the weekend. There have
been occasions when I feel as if I am fighting against the clock, although
technically the show doesn’t air for the first broadcast of the weekend until
four o’clock on Saturday morning UK time, but if I send it in plenty of time
then I know they have time to download it from my email and load it into the
system. When I record it on a Friday it always feels stressful, and today was
no exception. Jack has taken to following me into my office and making himself
comfortable on a pile of coats (my office is also a storage room/dumping ground
containing shoes, handbags (Mandi’s), books, records, CDs, press releases,
boxes of Christmas decorations, DVDs, video tapes, files, receipts, and other
such hoardings), which is fine until a neighbour’s cat appeared at the
windowsill prompting a round of barking at the exact moment I had turned my
microphone on. I managed to get him calmed down to record the show properly,
but he didn’t take his eyes off the window the whole time so I was on edge
knowing that if the cat was feeling confident I’d have to start again.
Thankfully the cat had learned
a lesson and Connecticut gets to enjoy another bout of Nottingham’s finest
musical offerings.
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