1. 03/30/11, 8:30 AM, my bedroom

2. I can hear water running in the bathroom. I hear my roommate brushing her teeth and her alarm is still playing in the other bedroom (the song “Bills, Bills, Bills”).

3. I hear my door creak as it opens. I hear banging from the walls, which I think is just pipes but I’m not actually sure.  I hear soft music playing from my computer.

4. I hear my cell phone alarm beeping on my pillow (which I turn off quickly). I hear my own breathing and a groan because I’m tired and have a headache and don’t want to wake up.

5. The sound level is very loud when my alarm is going off next to me. As soon as I turn it off, though, there is a sharp change and the sound level is very low.

6. Exasperating

7. Alarm, water running, music playing

Legal Seafood, 19 March 2011, 5:00 pm

The sounds furthest from me are the chatter of distant male and female voices, clanking of silverwear, footsteps of many bustling waiters and waitresses and the doors to the kitchen opening and entrance occasionally opening and closing.

The sounds medium distance to me are the voices of children, adult male and female voices, the thumping of items being placed on tables.

The sounds closest to me are the voices of my parents and my brother, wet but almost silent sounds of chewing, my own chewing, silverware occasionaly scraping across plates, thumping of drinks being placed back on the table, ice cubes knocking around in my drink, the fizz of carbanation from my sparkling water.

The general sound level is moderate and the amount of sound activity could be described as full and in perpetual motion with so many various sounds going in and out of ear shot quickly and consistantly.

The sound enviroment could be described as “lively.”

Three sounds necessary for this enviroment are male and female voices, the wet alomst silent sound of chewing, and the scratching of silverware cutting through food and onto plates.