good things happening all around me

i had an awesome day from start to finish yesterday. went to breakfast with penquin, isobel, and one of penquin's "underlings" "the scot" at this place called auntie em's in eagle rock. i got the french toast, the others got the pancakes. and we all got the taste slapped from our mouths, it was so good. bonus points to the place for playing radiohead while we ate. the scot and i got to exchange our music interests and concert stories. penquin had mentioned that's we'd get along on this front, and he was right. except for that whole business with him poo-pooing the cure. *scoff* heh :)

then drove to work which kinda sucked because there was some festival or something that blocked santa monica for several blocks. i hate when shit like that happens because the traffic gets fucked up with people wondering if they can turn left on a particular road. so while i wasn't late to work, the delay put an extra 25 minutes to my commute. stupid fucking festival type deals!

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went to korean bbq with my co-workers for dinner. i had it the day before with penquin, and still i was up for it. ahhh, the tantalizing power of korean bbq. there's just something about grilling meat at your table. eating the little morsels with several servings of kimchi and all those yummy sides dishes, wrapping them in those white noodles, and plopping them in your mouth in one bite.


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after work i headed out to vox pop, another britpop club that held some fairly high expectations for me and the rest of the britpop bunch. i had cajoled them into going to a couple other horrible excuses for the real deal and was down to my last strike. and i'm happy to report that this place lived up to everything we hoped for and wanted. (short of our favorite britpop haunt of yesteryear, popsuperstar, coming back, that is.)

i walked into the place and there were glyphic and gentleman drinker at the bar sipping on their drinks. and the music was what i've been dying to dance to. and i got all super giddy and smiley, because here i'm this club with rad music. my britpop peeps are coming out to represent, and for once! it's going to be o-k.

i think that was the best dancing i've done in a long time. even if we did have to dance on my broken beer glass. even if we were the only people on the dance floor! (well, and the other 2 couples) but we had great fun! there were grins aplenty. we even got to request songs from the dj! how awesome is that?

here's a couple more things i want to jot down lest i forget:

- free cigarettes, or rather the "greed" experiment
- getting another one of my beer glasses knocked over
- MPP naming all the hobo smokes he saved from the floor
- getting free shirts
- some people getting free buttons (how did i not get any?)
- free balloons
- being "fully" ok to drive

ahhhh, fun.

yes, the good things were happening all around me. my days should have more of this kind of leisure.