"Simple" Pleasures

Using the word "simple" in the "simple Simon" context, most of us have some sort of simple pleasure. Maybe we read tabloids or watch cheesy 80s teenage movies or listen to Britaney Speers...but everyone has some sort of simple/bandwagon/shallow pleasure that he/she engages in. And the more of these we have and the more variety of tastes they embody, the more eccentric the person. My husband thinks that I strive to be eccentric which means I'm quirky but I'm not rich enough to be eccentric because eccentricity requires more variety of simple pleasures that I can't afford. Someday, though, I will be eccentric! My latest simple pleasure on my way to eccentricity is the book Deception Point by Dan Brown. I had read one of his other books, Angels and Demons, earlier this year and got hooked. Still haven't read THE Dan Brown book - that's too normal to be eccentric...and it hasn't come out in paperback. Deception Point is a geeky thriller for the up-and-coming Washintonian. It's about Rachel Sexton, a single, smart, thirty-something intelligent official who is asked to help the President on rolling out an annoucment about a NASA project that has had a ground-breaking discovery. This is particularly interesting since the President is up for reelection in the coming year and Rachel's father is the opposing party's most likely candidate. I haven't gotten much farther so there's not much more to tell about the book. But, that's not the point of this post. The point is that simple pleasures, while the more you have is good, too much of one can be bad so I can only read one of these books a year. They are so addicting. But, might some addiction also be a requirement for being eccentric?