So I woke up this morning feeling like death. Thought that first sentence would be a great follow up / contrast to the title. Yeah… Anyway, epic amounts of stress + bad sleep + bad eating habits since the con + family drama llama + work drama llama + drama llama = bad fibromyalgia flare up. I wanted to call in and just sleep it out of my system… but Monday is the day I’m in the temp space and it’s a pain in the ass getting it covered if you’re out and I feel like stuff won’t be done as well when I’m gone and it makes more work.. so I just go and do it. It was lightheaded and feeling terrible and freezing so after the meeting I decided to thaw out in the car in glorious 109 degree weather.. it’s the only time this is acceptable.. and look up coffee and tea places nearby. I find a place called Serenade and walk in to Kpop… it’s a Korean cafe… nothing is gluten free, apparently the macarons aren’t or the lady just didn’t know what I was talking about or wasn’t sure and didn’t want to risk anything so she flat out said no. I ordered the ruby sipper tea and it’s a pretty pink tea and it’s floral and there’s an orange taste and I don’t hate it.
It came on this cute stand with hearts and a tealight candle in the middle… I see what they did there. I chilled and had tea and was good being out of the office for an hour and this guy walks in and I’m trying to place him. He has my attention. Why the fuck does he have my attention? He sits down at another table and then I notice he’s wearing a mofo Throbbing Gristle tshirt! Wat?! Seriously, I’m sure I can count how many times Throbbing Gristle has come up in conversation over the years with friends who are music encyclopedias on one hand. Holy obscurity. So there it is… Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy are the founders to a genre I hold near and dear to my little black heart. So I say “dude.” Nothing… he kinda looks up and I’m all “hey, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with a Throbbing Gristle shirt before.” Or something like that. He seemed really surprised I knew them… like reeeeeeeally surprised. He seemed delighted. I mentioned the Houjobb and Alter Der Ruine show on September 15th I wanna go to desperately in Phoenix.. it’s a weekday, I am sad. We’re pseduo yelling not yelling a conversation while trying to talk over the crappy Kpop… it wasn’t good Kpop.. it was crappy this Kdrama needs a better soundtrack Kpop. So I ask him if I’m coming over there or if he’s moving to my table. He grabs his things and sits at my table. I find out he’s from DC and is in PR. His name is Nick. I talk about the Phoenix scene and how it’s sister scenes to LA since they’re decent sized.. and I wondered why Vegas wasn’t part of it until I moved here and then it all became clear why shit never worked out here. We talked music, the places we came from, current work. We added each other on fb.
I just happened to be at the temp space today, and happened to look up a place for tea… that happened to be a Korean cafe… that he just started to frequent 2 weeks ago since we’re in his neighborhood. My life was officially a Kdramedy this afternoon. Mission accomplished.