Should I be distracted while writing in my own notes...?

[He sighs and shakes his head, holding up the hand with the pen in it in a sort of "sorry, I'm not usually an asshole" gesture. Let him try that again.

He doesn't make an effort to hide the notebook, either; his handwriting is more or less legible script, and a glance reveals that his notes are about-- just, stuff around town. How many districts there are, colors he's seen, and so on.]

I'm making observations, now that we've woken up in a well in a world without half of its color for no apparent reason and with no obvious way out!