Ethnography

Ethnography

September 14, 2014

Reflection





Well my laptop did not charge before I got here so now I have to face the window to be able to type anything because that is the only area with outlets to charge. Sitting this way makes me have my back to everybody. The only person I can see is my own reflection. Now this time everybody can see what I am typing if they want too. In order to prohibit this from happening I have put the font in the smallest possible format I can. Great. The music overhead is this really intense classical symphony music so it is like god is purposely playing it as if to tease me. It is literally that music playing in movies when everything is in slow motion and people are throwing food at each other and it is really dramatic big scene. When I was walking in to enter the building one of the customers stared right me but I thought nothing of it. Anyway when I entered the building once again there were different employees compared to the ones there were last time. There is only one employee that I recognize. She seems rather uninterested in me trying to make conversation. I order a latte and she gives me a number. There is a new employee who seems rather nice as he smiled at me when I came in, I’ll call him Ethan. When I realized that my battery was dead I tried to see if there was an outlet on the wall but didn’t find one. On my search though I kept making eye contact with the same customer before. When I moved to sit near the window where the only outlets where he was leaving with his friend and he stared at me while I was setting up. Jeez this music is so fast paced I feel like I am being rushed to type everything. From my surroundings there is a man sitting a couple of seats away from me who I will call Justin; who just received a phone call. From what I can tell he is talking about vitamins? Something about vitamin D and appointments. So it seems that he might be a doctor because now he is mentioning blood tests. Or maybe he is just picking up subscriptions. He seems to be friends or related to an older gentleman who is sitting on the couch not that far away from me because after the phone call he got up to mention the conversation he had on the phone. The older gentleman who I will call Smith is sitting there casually eating a muffin and sipping on his coffee. Seems like Justin is leaving to go pick up the subscriptions because he is packing up getting ready to leave. The customers that are coming into the building are not shutting the door so the newspapers that are on the table next to me just flew across the room… I went to go pick them up and stupidly I put them back and now some of them flew away again but I caught the majority of them. Ethan grinned at my failed attempt. If anybody wants to read them they are going to have to come up to me… great. A man just went outside to take a phone call and he is sitting across from me, I’ll call him Dr.Pepper because that is what his shirt says. I can’t tell what he I saying.  Justin just left but he didn’t take the older gentleman with him. Though he did take all of Smiths stuff, including some board game. Smith seems to be getting up to leave as well but is kind of just standing there. A lot of the customers have left so it’s a lot calmer than it was before. Smith is leaving now. NOO!! Two girls just sat next to me. Even though there is one chair separating us I feel like they can still see! Now I have to make the font even smaller than before. This really sucks. I am going to be found out for real this time. I’ll continue anyway. When I leaned back in my chair because of my anguish in the realization I might be found out I got a better angle on Dr. Pepper. He seems to be enjoying is conversation because he is laughing. Ethan who is the nice employee who smiled at me is talking to a customer he knows about how he failed his boards and that is pretty much all his life consists of. Though he says he has until December for something… maybe to retake the test. But now he I mentioning that he loves biology and urology and research? So I’m not completely sure what he is planning. One of the customers who came in is leaving and it is so windy outside his hat flew off his head though he caught it in the last second.  I have found out what radio station is playing. It is called NPR news. Though I am not sure what that stands for.  A customer who was leaving caught some of the new newspapers that were put on the table. We gave each other a knowing look. I think I better leave before I get found out by the two women next to me… Until next time!

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