Anthropologia Deux

I am questioning my choice of field work in a small suburban law firm. Tonight, I am at an urban coffee shop--again working on the cases that dominate my work--and across from me is a semi-circle of white females knitting scarves, baby hats, and other functional items. While I am familiar with the knitting circles of early twentieth century southeastern Iowa, having studied it intensely during my undergraduate years, this circle resembles nothing of the early American "craft progenitors." (Robbinson, Gayle, 1987). First, the knitters are young, apparently "hip" as that term is used in early millenial America, and appear to smile and laugh often, quite a different scenario than the women I studied, who were often pictured as enmeshed in a collective brown study. These women here are also, it seems, involved in some sort of conspiracy involving the making of various household and other items--mosaics, tile work, glued felt and, oddly, robots.

I must go. I may have been discovered, so I will pretend only to speak Armenian.