What I did to kill time at the department store when I couldn’t go home because there was a fire drill and Stephen was sleeping on me in the sling. It was torture because I had nothing to read and there wasn’t any reading material sold on the premises either.

  1. Ate half of a dry brownie even though I had decided to eat light for a few weeks because of all the overeating I did in California.
  2. Drank a capuccino which was the second cup of caffeine I had today and one more than my usual.
  3. Tried a pair of sandals with flashing lights on Stephen’s feet while he slept. (I showed it to him later when he woke up and he didn’t like them.)
  4. SMS’d (text messaged) Marv.
  5. Looked for a nonexistent internet cafe.
  6. Smoked (ok, just kidding, but it looks like a good way to kill time).
  7. People watched.
  8. Bought a notebook that I didn’t need just so I could sit in the food court and jot random thoughts down.
  9. Tried to play video games on my cell phone but was too inept to last more than a minute.
  10. Spaced out.
  11. Planned meals.
  12. Made lists.
  13. Watched Mulan II from afar without sound on the TV screen at the DVD stall.
  14. Counted the minutes.
  15. Considered sitting on the bench in front of the big screen TV in the appliance department because they usually play an English movie on it, but remembered that there are usually already people camped out there. (I walked by later and saw two mothers feeding their babies bottles of milk there.)
  16. Picked dry skin off fingers and cuticles.
  17. Wiped sweat from sleeping Stephen’s brow.
  18. Wrote down everything that came into my head.
  19. Considered getting a pedicure at the salon on the same floor as the food court, but would have had to get my own set of clippers because of hygiene concerns.
  20. Numbered the pages of the new notebook.

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