Of his experiences with octopuses, he notes: "if you sit in front of their den and reach out a hand, they'll often send out an arm or two, first to explore you, and then — absurdly — to try to haul you into their lair".
Wherever possible, he used his laptop to take notes; it sat in front of him during meals, except when a crush of tableware forced it onto his lap; he then covered the keyboard with a napkin, ate quickly, wiped his mustache, and started typing again.
At her swearing-in, the former Village Voice columnist Tom Robbins noted, bosses sat in the front row.
I know of no artist of note who sat in his or her room and generated great work solely out of their own heads, without knowing something of the artwork of previous generations.
A 2016 HighSnobiety piece titled "Wave Music: Why You Need This New Genre In Your Life Right Now" noted, "Wave sits in the venn overlap of pretty much all of our electronic and hip-hop collections and playlists".
(I got mine just a few days in advance online, via OpenTable. I noted that I wanted to sit in the back room. The owners complied).
In the beginning, visitors came daily to the chapel, making appointments to sit in reflection, write notes in a ledger or leave a memento or two.
Where a lot of players are grouped in one class, tutors sometimes sit in and take notes.
(I was allowed to sit in and take notes on both meetings as long as I didn't print the names of those participating).
(Note: The Dalai Lama continues to sit in Parliament meetings, despite statements that he is a spiritual, not political, leader of the Tibetans. END NOTE).
