Measured out in coffee cups.

First cup~

11.18.11 - 7:00AM

Arrived yesterday. Early to rise today, I awoke exhausted. Everything seemed backward; sleeping, I felt awake, and awake, I felt as if sleeping. I made myself my first cup of coffee, black. Training for my new job to start at 230PM. Out the door by 8AM, the fog in my head and the sleep in my eyes vanished for a few hours. Clarity’s windshield wipers kicked in; caffeine angel.

Bakery for breakfast, then subway station, goal for leaving this early: to find a three-prong converter for my laptop computer. Took the subway to Daechidong – transferring once, which confused the hell out of my caffeinated brain cells.

Second cup~

11.18.11 - 9:00AM

Arrived at Daechidong Station. Searched for three-prong converter in vain, all electronic shops and stores aside from coffee shops, closed until 10AM. Picked up my second cup of coffee at Café Edelia in some corporate building. Ordered in Korean, it was choppy and concise but understood. Stores opened, and no converter. Hopped a bus to the COEX, Asia’s largest underground mall, in search of the three-pronged grail - no luck.

Third cup~

11.18.11 – 12 NOON

About to leave the COEX, stopped into a Starbucks. Chai tea latte with a double shot of espresso should be staple to my forehead. At this point, exhaustion has left me no shame, but to doze off slouched on comfy leather chairs in cafes. Epic power nap, hopped the subway back to Daechidong Station to head into work for the first day of training. Walked to the building, 2PM as I pulled the handle of the door open, and wouldn’t you know, three-pronged converter, my grail, last one of it’s kind, hanging in the entrance of a convenient store, three floors down from where I was to be training; irony.