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sheila

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

About Me

I do British accents almost as well as I do Australian ones.

My Interests

.. chess, karaoke, exercise, mindless celebrity magazines filled with trash, progressive politics

I'd like to meet:

Pam 6.0

Music:

Everything from the Beatles to Sum 41 to Queen to Jill Scott...

Movies:

Indie films and cheesy romantic comedies.

Television:

The Office, Lost, The Daily Show.

Books:

Autobiography of Malcolm X...Biography of Frida Kahlo...House on Mango Street...

Heroes:

My parents.

My Blog

Breakthroughs and moving on...

First of all, it is 12:30 in the morning and I know for a fact that I will feel like sh*t all day long because I have to be at work by 7 am for a breakfast event, and I am nowhere near sleepy. It's no...
Posted by sheila on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:00 PST

Like a nice cup of coffee in the morning

Last night, I had dinner at this great Vietnamese bistro called China Beach. It was sooo good! Not only is the food amazing, but the owner is also very cool. I definitely foresee lots of takeouts and ...
Posted by sheila on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:53:00 PST

When insomnia attacks

I can't sleep. Again. This is, like, the third week in a row that I don't feel sleepy! I tried drinking sleeping pills last night, but I think it gave me a panic attack instead. My heart was beating l...
Posted by sheila on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:22:00 PST

Skate, Roll, Bounce is the soundtrack to my misery

I am at a coffee shop right now and taking a break from studying. I've recently made up my mind to defer law school for another year because I'm going to try to either get into a joint J.D. / M.P.A. p...
Posted by sheila on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:32:00 PST

U-Haul Not Needed

So, I moved to Venice! In a way, it's pretty impulsive. I've been hating on the traffic I have to go through every day (at least 15 hours a week on the 405 from the valley). One day, I woke up, went o...
Posted by sheila on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:16:00 PST

Dancing Shoes and Tumor Cells

We celebrated Eddie's birthday this weekend at Highlands in Hollywood:Sheila and the pretty mamas...A mini class reunion!DJ Ever-Ed-E himself...(Because of this man, I have never had to wait in line o...
Posted by sheila on Mon, 15 May 2006 01:04:00 PST

The Good, the bad, and the really ugly

The first big event I was in charge of at work:Very well attended (we had 75 people last year. This year, there were 150!!!) Good feedbacks for the most part, but I had a city council member complain ...
Posted by sheila on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:54:00 PST

Touchy subject

For the Man My Father Might Have ChosenBy Sylvia ChongMy father would have liked you,liked the clean way you dressed,the almost deferentialway you put your handon my shoulder, and the wayyou glide thr...
Posted by sheila on Thu, 04 May 2006 10:22:00 PST

Liquid salts and broken columns

When you are told you have six months left to spend with a loved one before cancer cells devour what's left of them, how do you make every day count? Five hundred twenty-five thousandSix hundred minu...
Posted by sheila on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:29:00 PST

All Work and (Sometimes) Play

I worked late at the job fair yesterday, got to work at 7:00 a.m. for a board meeting this morning, will work until 4 pm this Saturday, and working on a big luncheon next Tuesday... but I had my perfo...
Posted by sheila on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:15:00 PST