“I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away…”
-Sinead O’Connor

This song was popular when I was in 8th grade – I had never heard it when I still lived in California. All of my friends listened to rap, R&B, and those slow jams that always had those low, spoken interludes that said stuff like, “Oh baby, oh baby, I don’t know what I would do if you don’t come back to me…” (As a side note, my dad used to laugh at those – “Can you imagine if I tried to talk to my wife that way? She’d LAUGH AT ME!”).

Today, my oldest is having a slumber party. There are a few first-graders downstairs squealing and jumping on my couch. I’ve been trying to distract myself by curling up with a fluff book. I’m re-reading “Sammy’s Hill” by Kristin Gore – Al Gore’s daughter. It’s surprisingly funny, also, surprisingly chick-lit-y. The main character references “Nothing Compares 2 U” though, and so now I’ve had it in my head for the past hour (which is impressive since the Hannah Montana concert is on tv right now – rather loudly, at that).

Whatever happened to Sinead? Besides that whole Pope-picture burning thing?