In Chapter 2 I introduce the reader to Marseille, trace the contours of my studies in the city and locate myself as a researcher within it. The chapter reflects on the challenges of studying temporalitytemporality ethnographically, and develops the concept of ‘waitingwaiting as methodwaitingwaiting as method’. I reflect on the multiple meanings and practices of ‘documentationdocumentation’ as a state practice of b/ordering, as a phenomenon proliferating in my ethnographic material and as an ethnographic practice in itself. Identifying an ‘entanglement of desires’ between actors who seek to document the un/documented, I discuss possible positionalities for the anthropologist as observer, witnesswitnessing, companionaccompanying and critic.