• The backstory

Little Girl, Big City

Little Girl, Big City

Tag Archives: the game journalist

Mistakes pre arrival

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by jenniferstavros in Los Angeles, the Valley

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

first of, hardly dating, introductions, Little girl Big city, mistakes, red flags, sequence of scenes, the game journalist, trips to Los Angeles

6:30 pm 4.10.08

Scene: a sushi bar in the Valley

The whole thing wasn’t exactly the greatest thing ever.  I’d taken the bus down to meet him.  I was dressed cute and demure.  Looking at the photos now, his interest in me bordered on creepy.  I looked ridiculously young then.  I was ridiculously young.  But maybe it was the blonde hair.

He picked me up from the stop and brought me to a sushi place. He- the A-typical Los Angeles guy: tall with black hair, white tshirt, jeans.  Me- a tiny girl with blonde hair tossed in a low ponytail, spaghetti strapped tank top and jeans.

“Asahi or Sapporo please and whatever else she wants.  Is that alright?”

“Yeah that works.  Thanks.”

The conversation was lacking any depth.  We didn’t sit and have deep conversations about art or philosophy (even though he’s a Taoist so you would guess there would be some room for discussion bubbling upstairs).   We talked about video games, work, travel, restaurants and the day.  We might as well have been talking about the weather.

That was about the most intense it got.

He might have been an on-air personality, but off-air he wasn’t anything special.  Don’t get me wrong, he was a nice enough guy for the time to some regard, but in other ways he was very much so that A-typical California cliche.

It was about everything I expected.. with a few peaks of disaster and/or “my luck” as usual.  We wrapped up the meal and headed back to his place.

“So we’re here now.  What do you want to do?”

0.000000 0.000000
Advertisements

Recent Posts

  • Happy Birthday Stranger
  • Forget Me Not
  • Welcome to LA Mr. Bulian
  • It’s Friday and I’m in Love: A Comedy of Errors… of Heart
  • It’s Friday and I’m in Love: Not just better on the internet
February 2019
M T W T F S S
« May    
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728  

Archives

  • May 2013
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011

a fresh page artist living being vulnerable Blue skies Bordello car trouble car trouble on the 405 City complacent couch crashers Culver City dating doorman downtown downtown Los Angeles energized fever first night in Los Angeles five feet friends of a mermaid fulfilling a dream Gallery Row Golden Gopher good morning LA good morning Los Angeles heart failure heels Hello world Hollywood in the middle of the 405 introductions K2 LAX Little girl Big city Los Angeles love lunch with dad magical moments metro motherhood Muse for Hire new beginnings nostalgic moments omens positivity pressure cooker real city stories realities real women red flags relationships sequence of scenes serendipitous intersections Skyline spontaneous trip to Vegas stories from the city tall dark and handsome technology the arrival the Brewery the Brewery artist colony the energy of living in the city the magic of the brewery the other couch surfer the programmer the programmer that stole my heart the suited gent the suited gentleman things got real three's company twitterati Urban urban blogging Vegas Wilshire district

Beverly Hills Claremont Culver City Downtown Echo Park Freeways Gallery Row Glendale Hollywood Koreatown Lincoln Heights Little Tokyo Los Angeles Marina Del Rey Mid Wilshire Other cities Public Transit Riverside Santa Monica Seattle Silverlake the Valley Uncategorized Vegas West LA

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.com
Advertisements

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy