Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Gentleman with a Laptop (Revised)

A man walks into the room from the South West door. The room is approximately 45 feet wide and 65 feet long. The walls are made of large bricks that have been painted over to become white. The ceiling is concrete and has a coffered design to it. The two windows in the back of the room have been shaded, such that most of the ambient light is now artificial.

The top of the man’s head shines a bit under the lights as it is devoid of any hair. However, he still has some hair remaining on the sides of his head, all of which is a slate gray color. He also sports a full beard trimmed short to his skin, only a quarter of an inch long. The beard has a lighter gray color compared to the rest of his hair. His skin has relatively few wrinkles on it; it takes a closer look to see any of the ones that are there. He has a light tan to his skin and a small pair of glasses resting on his nose.

His body frame is quite lean. He is five and a half feet tall weighing close to a hundred and fifty pounds. His dress is comprised of a clean white polo shirt with fine textured ribbing on it; light tan, pleated, wool slacks, and a thin brown belt that only filled half the width of a belt loop. His soft loafers match his brown belt perfectly.

He sets up a laptop on top of a box that is above a small brown table. His eyes peer past his small circular glasses and become fixed onto the screen of the black laptop. He quickly moves his finger back and forth across the touch pad stopping only to click a button. After a minute of maintaining this focus, he lifts his right foot a few feet into the air and rests it on the table. Once in his new position, his focus continues along with the fevered usage of the touch pad.

Once he pauses and lets out a drawn out sigh, his pace with the touch pad finally slows. Two minutes later, he pulls his leg back from off the table, turns to his right and takes a sip of coffee from a bronze colored mug with a black lid and handle that had been resting on the table. He takes a few more sips, slides the lid close, and places the coffee mug in the exact location he moved it from.

He locates something on the computer that produces a smile that looks to be partially a smirk. As a few more people enter the room, he pulls himself away from the laptop to make just a few casual remarks to the new comers.

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