As I took notes, several marines came by and peeked inside the blue van.
As I took notes regarding that slice of the abbey's pageant that passed between the distant shoulder of Viscount Linley on one aisle, and the headdress of the Sultan of Oman on the other, Dickens lay memorialised under my feet.
As I took notes, the lady sitting next to me leaned over and asked in a pointed manner, "So, did you like it?," daring me to contradict her.
As I took notes documenting his string of incorrect statements, (no, there is no GMO wheat yet, same with apples; no there was not a massive death of monarch butterflies in Europe), he heard my keyboard tapping and stopped momentarily to ask who I was.
Office Lens has become a key part of my workflow, as I use it to deliver images from presentations straight into an open notebook on a PC or tablet, so I can have them ready for annotations as I take notes in a meeting.
This is all great stuff about an actor's motivation, but I'm thinking, as I take notes, of what would happen if I suckered him with the old "Look over there!" and, while he turned, chucked the coffee in his face.
As I traveled, I took note of landmarks: the Watts Towers, the Highland Theatre, LAX.
As a graduate student, I took note of the anxiety and frustration among many postdocs who were finding it difficult to obtain an independent research position.
As he described the competition, I took note of how he focused on strategies for beating other contestants, his weight-loss progress and odds at winning, rather than feeling deprived of his favorite foods or complaining about having to exercise more.
In scouring local mastheads as a young, impressionable writer, I took note of all the women's names.
