August 5, 2008

• Bookstore Cafe observations

  Hello everyone!  Nothing terribly exciting has happened since I update.  I’m still sorta job hunting, but I haven’t gotten into full blown searching quite yet.  In a way I’m procrastinating while I still can.

  Lately, one of the ways I’ve been procrastinating has been hanging out at the cafe at the Arundel Mills bookstore.  I ever got my own spot there; the middle seat at the window seats, facing out towards the mall.  I’ve been showing up there for the past week or so, reading a book and getting some bubble tea (which is conveniently right in front me of me!).  Today is the first time bringing a laptop with me, since I recently found out there’s wireless.  Needless to say, I’ve been doing a lot less reading today haha.

  One of the reasons I sit at the window seat is so I can people watch, which can be quite fun (not in a creepy way of course; don’t act like you don’t do this too when you’re bored!).  Here’s a sample of some of the observations I’ve made as I sit here:

  **That Deal or No Deal game station is relatively popular.  I see at least a few people play it every hour, though I’m not sure what people actually win when they play it.  I never see anything come out of that machine, so maybe it’s just for the high score.  For the price of playing, that doesn’t really seem like a good deal (no pun intended).  Still, it’s pretty entertaining seeing the faces of the people playing, looking like they are really winning money.  I doubt anyone ever gets the million dollar suitcase, since it’s all electronic so it can be very easily rigged for people to fail. 

  **That DVD/Movie game machine is far less popular.  I think I’ve seen maybe…2 people playing it in the past week?  Most of the time I see little kids come over there and just press the buttons furiously as if they had A.D.H.D.  The game seems pretty difficult to win as well, and definitely does not look like its worth the money.  I wonder how much it is…I saw someone put a 5 dollar bill in it but didn’t see them getting any change.  Totally not worth it.

  **Mall cops on segways wearing bike helmets are always funny to look at everytime they past, er drive by.  Are those really neccessary?  Maybe it’s just me, but I have a hard time taking them seriously on those things. Doesn’t help that most of them look a bit too overweight to be able to outrun anyone.  Hmm, maybe those segways are just a necessaty for them to do their jobs afterall *shrugs*.

  **In terms of popularity (over the weekdays at least), Auntie Anne’s is first, than Jasmine, than Cinnabon.

  **Speaking of Jasmine, it seems like all the female workers there are over 25 while most of the male workers look like they are freshmen in high school.  Jasmine should employ more female workers around my age so I can have some eye candy while sitting here .

  **Yea…Arundel Mills does not have a very high rate of good looking people to average/bad looking people walking around.  I say about 75-80% of the people that are good looking are with their significant other as well.  How dissappointing

  **I really shouldn’t be so surprise at how often I see an old high school classmate walking by.  Some people just don’t ever leave…including me haha.  Oh even more reason to find a job soon.

  That’s all the observations I can think of at this moment.  Back to reading the Twilight series.

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