hello, sinister. i have been wasting time at work, hoping the sound of typing floating from betwixt my cubicle walls will convice the other admins that i am, in fact, still working on creating the most masterful and decidedly toughest project grading scale in the history of the architecture college for the dean's graduate class. in reality, i finished at least twenty minutes ago, at which time i poked about friendster and then decided i might well poke my head out of the old sinister lurkers' den and say hello, how are you, how have you been and how many more of you are there these days. so. there you have it. and because most sinister posts start off socially enough and rapidly decline into self-observation or self-promotion or self-indulgence or what have you, i will follow the traditional grain with a lou-update, for which i am certain most of you have been positively jonesing, slapping the sides of your monitors and laptops and heads and whatnot when you found that, day after wretched day, i had left you in the dark. rest now. relax. settle in. i am here. *** so what does a formerly rabidly sinister girl do when she drops off for a while? well, not only does she leave her fairweather sinis behind, she ditches everyone. i have adopted a bit of a hermit style, really. after changing jobs and running entirely, completely, totally out of money, i borrowed some from my parents, bought a few loaves of bread and some cheese, moved and set up shop once again on my own, but this time with a typewriter. it sounds more romantic that way. the truth is, my typewriter ran out of ribbon a while back, and i've mostly been lazing around watching american idol between jobs and classes and the occasional bar jaunt or show. but. no more! true, i have grown quite tired of the state i am in, that being nebraska. it's funny when you realize, one day, you have grown up enough to know very specifically what you don't want anymore, and why. once this occurs, the next thing you do is begin identifying that which you want, and in doing so, i came up with a few ideas. namely, a new scene, stability and (an old ideal), love. then, i made a graduation plan. and a possible job plan. and then i sent out a resume and cover letter and sat back into my pillows, trying to decide if the american idol pen salesman should get my vote or not. *** then a funnier thing happened. the day after i sent my resume and cover letter, i got a response. a positive one. and in three days i replanned all my plans and admitted to myself that, if all goes well, getting two out of three life desires ain't bad at all. i get: *a new scene (nay, a new state!) *love (the outlook on that is promising) stability will be hard to come by, what with an unpaid internship in san diego, but then, i'll be right there next to the ocean, watching the sunset, wishing i could have gotten there in time to have trucked it to coachella to have seen b&s (<--content). *** so. i am probably going to move to california, then. i have an interview next week, and then i would plant myself there in mid-may. of course, i think i shall meet some other sinisterites there, right? good. and i hope they'll have ideas about where a girl can stay for not much money at all. love and all that, lou. ===== www.somewhereinbetween.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+