I should start getting used to this.

I had no idea that I'd end up dating a boy with such random connections to Hollywood. Again, another post about celebrities - it's getting old by now right?

Every time I open up my favorite celebrity gossip site, I see daily photos of Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto walking about in the neighborhood that Bryan lives in. Kirk gets his coffee from a place that is literally down the hill from where he lives. And Spock walks his dog on the same street that we have walked his. I went to Bryan's dodgeball game the other night and saw Donna from That 70s Show also there to support her friends. I really wanted to go up to her and be that dorky crazed fan because that is one of my favorite shows but I didn't want to be "that girl". I shared a dinner table with one of his teammates who I later saw on a youtube video singing Journey with Ellen Page. His roommate is also the producer of the Tim & Eric show and produces music videos for Ok Go and MGMT. He also eats at a cafe that Nick Lachey likes to visit. Wait, didn't I just see Nick on One Tree Hill?

Brenda from 90210 knows about my restaurant. (She's very tiny in person.) The celebies are just slowly trickling in. All these people I've grown up watching on my little television set are now suddenly real, connected to my place of work or possibly knows my boyfriend.

Life has yet to cease to amaze me. I write about all these random celebrity sightings and connections not to sound cool (ok, maybe a little cool?) but because I mostly find them very strange. I almost need to stop reading blogs and celeb news because now it's like I kind of know some of them. If not individually, at least their world.

I guess that's what happens when your boyfriend is from a hip part of town and works in Beverly Hills. And I myself, now working at a 10-million dollar restaurant in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

How has this become a part of my life?

L.A. is a strange strange, confounding place.

And I am in the midst of trying to find myself (again.. or always?). I have no idea. I'm looking for a new place to live because sometime this year, I must move out. But where to? And with whom?

I am also looking for an adventure. Perhaps dating someone who comes from a drastically different social and cultural context is adventure enough for now. We are so similar in some great ways but we've also been raised really differently.

So yeah. I never thought that running into famous people would have to become a normalized part of my life.