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<\/p>\nIt’s a pouring rainy morning and I’ve been up since 5:45. I was BLASTED into consciousness by Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” … and I feel that that is a good omen for the day. I am doing laundry, and Swiffering everything in the apartment, including my soul. I also read a chapter in my book about the Maronite Christians. And I also wrote a girlie-gushy entry in my diary about Keith, and what it was like to be with him last week. Hi, Keith! Yes, it is a modern-day version of Diary Friday. My own life – with its interwoven continuity, its re-visitations, its feel of a literary conceit – kinda blows me away, if I really think about it. Talked on the phone with David yesterday and he said, “Sheila, it’s like in a matter of a month you have been plucked out of your old life completely<\/i> … and plopped down into the middle of somebody else’s life. Oh, and I also made some Nutrisystem pancakes (which rock the house, by the way). I’m meeting with my tax lady later this afternoon, no time like the present, I love her, with her vaguely Serbo-Croatian accent and her acute intelligence with a semi-Balkan edge. And hopefully later I can see my massage guru, because it’s been one helluva week – all good stuff – but I am wiped out and I need a bit of attention, frankly. I’ve also been messing around in my little photo studio, trying to figure this whole thing out.<\/p>\n
Here’s another New York montage. Things seen while out and about and up and down and around and thru.<\/p>\n
9th Avenue<\/p>\n
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\nAnthropologie window display. Little hanging baggies of dirt, with sprouts coming out of it … such a whimsical beautiful window … I loved it.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/anthropologie-window.jpg\")
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\nThe United States Marine Band – going back onto their bus. I got to watch them perform, too. It was gorgeous. On multiple levels. Ahem.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Marine-band.jpg\")
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\nKurt Vonnegut. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/slaughterhouse.jpg\")
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\nThe Hershey Factory – one view – Beth, member our insane time there when you were a chaperone (who had no voice, I might add??) And Bets – remember crowding in there the day you came down with the kids to see Wicked<\/i>? That place is nuts!!<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/willy-wonka.jpg\")
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\nThe Hershey Store – another view. It was great – because it was a grey dreary day and the colors bombarded you thru the bleak.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/willy-wonka-2.jpg\")
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\nStage Door<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/stage-door.jpg\")
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\nNBC Studio 1 – mural on lobby wall<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/studio-1-lobby.jpg\")
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\nNBC Studio 1 – another view of the mural<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/studio-1-lobby-mural.jpg\")
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\nThis one’s my favorite shot I got of the mural.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/studio-1-mural-wall.jpg\")
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\nDoesn’t this dude look like such a wiseass? That’s probably because he’s 8 stories tall.<\/p>\n
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