1. Describe two situations that aggravated, bothered, shocked or otherwise stressed you during Drift 1 or 2.
When I went out on my second drift one of my strategies was to look for abandoned objects. This led me to realize just how much trash there is everywhere in this city. And I don’t just mean I noticed a surplus of trash cans I mean there is random papers and plastics discarded on every sidewalk, tons of broken glass, lazy boys sitting next to trees, and everything else you could imagine. I found two blue button up shirts buried beneath the dirt in the first five minutes of my walk. And not both buried in the same area, two separate incidents of finding a blue button up shirt buried in the dirt. And the discarded cigarette butts; even where ashtrays are readily available there are undoubtedly still cigarette butts laying all over the ground.
Another thing that bothered me occurred to me on my first drift. I went out and was walking around Oakland quite a bit. Oakland’s a pretty busy street so I expected a lot of noise of people. But most of my walk was pretty eerily quiet. I realized just how little movement happens in this city past dark. Compared to a lot of cities Milwaukee is surprisingly comfortable staying still. Which isn’t a bad thing, except when you’re trying to collect sound.
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