{"id":7319,"date":"2007-12-02T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2015-06-05T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T13:11:01","slug":"a-typical-sheila-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"A Typical Sheila Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting on the bus yesterday. It was the first really cold night we’ve had. My packages surrounding me: tea lights, oil fragrances for my diffuser thingie that I am addicted to, also a car fragrance thing for my car (Yankee Candle: Lemon Lavendar scent).<\/p>\n

iPod playing Backstreet Boys. BLARING Backstreet Boys. “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”, to be specific. I can barely hold myself back from leaping up and dancing in the aisles. You know … that cockatoo bird was moved to dance to the song<\/a> … and so am I.<\/p>\n

Nose in a book: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I can listen to Backstreet Boys as I read about the Holocaust. I see no problem here.<\/p>\n

I curled up in bed last night and watched Notting Hill<\/i> for, oh, the 5000th time. It never pales. I don’t know why. It’s a simple pleasure for me. It’s a tossup between Notting Hill<\/i> and About a Boy<\/i> (another favorite). They just satisfy<\/i>. They do not challenge<\/i> … they satisfy<\/i>. Most of the time I’m in the mood for a challenge. But when I’m not? Let’s watch Notting Hill<\/i> or About a Boy<\/i>. True, Dean Stockwell is not in either of these films … but that’s a forgivable lapse in judgment on the part of the directors.<\/p>\n

After finishing Notting Hill<\/i>, I read some more of Hannah Arendt’s book … while listening to Britney Spears’ “In the Zone” (I think that “Toxic” is pretty much the highpoint of what is now, obviously, her sadly short career. Great song). Again. Britney Spears. Holocaust. Makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Woke up to the first snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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