1. February 9, 2012
9:30 PM sitting alone in Emily Lowe, 201
2. People talking below the window as they smoke on the front steps of the building. The general hum of the buildings equipment somewhere below.
3. Footsteps in the Hall, then down the stairs. A sing running, then paper towels in the bathroom down the hall. Doors opening throughout the building.
4. My laptop’s fan. The click of the hard drive occasionally. When there are no other noises, the tick of my watch on my wrist.
5. It is all ambient noises—nothing in particular standing out, especially when the conversations (which I can’t even distinguish) cease.
6. Still.
7. The hum of the building equipment, the whirr of my laptop’s fan, and the ever occasional noise of people moving in the hall.