Documentation

It is really odd when you feel like you must document everything around you. There have been so many comical things that I have noted that have gone without being blogged because I forget in the midst of having to record all of my fieldwork stuff. Funny things that I hear, funny things that I say, things that I observe and have a notable reaction to-- it just all slips away after I spend an hour or so typing up notes. I think I also am getting some sort of wrist disease... and finger disease. My joints ache a lot. I think it is because I have spent most of my time typing on the keyboard of a 12 inch laptop... not the roomiest or the best for long-term usage.

Case in point-- yesterday as I was waiting in the shelter of a bank´s building these two girls came running toward me and started shaking off all of the water on their bodies right next to me. I thought this was really rude and inconsiderate being that there was plenty of space for them to do this without wetting me. It is like sometimes people have no idea of what they are doing. Bad manners. Or, how later on when I was walking back a little kid who was walking right in front of me stopped to pee on the wall of the building bordering the sidewalk. Just like that. Zip. Pee. Zip. I could not believe it. His parents did not tell him not to do this... they just kept walking. It amazes me how people just pee in the streets here. I can never see myself doing that.

I just wish I could remember more of these things that way I could write about them. In 10 years I will read over this blog and laugh... the more craziness included the better...