• Information on how the interview will work.
• A sample recording (see below on this page for a transcription of this recording).

It’s morning, the kids are out of the house, I have decided to start working right away, still in my pyjamas. I am sitting on my bed, my legs long, the left crossed over the right under my blanket, my pillow behind my back, allowing me to lean at the wall. I am sitting a tiny bit too crunched, so I can feel the pressure of my body on my spine region, the anticipation of numbness in it. My hands are lying on the keyboard of my laptop. 

I am having a little break in answering emails and am staring to the side. My gaze falls on the electricity cable of my computer hanging in the air, the adapter part plugged in at the wall. 

The cable has an untidy curl in the middle, giving it some weight. I see this curl shivering a bit. The sight reminds me of a situation I was recently in, in which I was sharing with someone that a multi-socket hanging under the desk, not totally reaching the ground, affected me, let me feel an uncomfortable stretch in my right body half. I can feel it now, remembering. 

It’s a visual memory connected to that stretch, especially strong in my right eye, a flickering tension, and then the smile of my friend, pushing a little cardboard box under the socket to relieve me of my “socket compassion”. 

I pull myself to the present and look at the hanging cable next to me. First, I think it does not have this effect. I think that maybe it is not heavy enough. But then my gaze gets stuck at the adapter that seems slightly, just minimally drawn to the ground. 

It’s a minimal skewedness detected in the actual sight together with an inner image of the two metal parts of the plug and the feeling of them pushing upwards against something responding to the weight of the adapter. I realize that this feeling is aggravated by a sensation connected to the cable coming out of the adapter, pulling at it, forming the curl at the lowest part before getting supported by my bed again. It’s by far not as strong as with the socket but I want to put something under the curl to make the feeling disappear. 

Thinking of this, I have a visual and bodily imagination of the adapter lifting up into horizontal position, the tension relieved. Then I pull myself back to working.