i feel rather pathetic here. i am in california which everyone assumes is so warm and yet i am freezing my ass, but mainly my fingers. and the news keeps threatening that there's a huge energy shortage and the electric companies might start having blackouts tonight on purpose. i don't really see the point, it will just piss us off more. first, we have to deal with the horrendous fog that makes it impossible to get to work in the morning, and then after managing to make it through the day while being harrassed by old men, we have to return home to the possibility that we might not have power. we might not be able to make dinner. as if anyone wants cold cereal when you're shaking. and now they are telling me that particular northern california cities might make me sick. oh, the worries. and this is what it took to get me out of my hiding mode. i won't say that i lurked, i hid. i like hiding, there's a small bit of excitement with it. i was always intrigued that in hide-and-seek, the best places to hide were always the ones that were harder to get out of and therefore you always ended up being "it," which wasn't at all exciting. but lurking seems so suspicious, and I don't really feel suspicious today. i suppose i could turn on the heater and try to warm up, but what's the point when the only room that gets warm is the bathroom. if i wanted to spend my time in there, my tv would be there. i would have a stereo in there at least. definitely a phone. or maybe that is the way to go, hide in the bathroom so that i can be warm and not hear the bad news that my hometown might kill me and that the town i am living in now will. next they will tell me that fossil plants are out to get me and then i guess i would have to hide in the bathroom and wait for the guy from "ed" to save me. and now i realize that i have let out how american i actually am. i don't try to be. but i will say this, most americans would never be able to distinguish a canadian accent from an american accent, unless it was a french canadian accent and then they would still just think the person was from the south. and the election is fabulous. i love hearing the same thing in the morning, talking to everyone they possibly can and saying the same thing. i like lawyers less and less each day, not that i want bush junior as president, of course the keg parties would be fun. and now, i have gloves on, but i'm saving energy, right? i guess a semi-formal intro is in order. marikka...geologist, which means that i try to get gasoline out of the soil, not oil out of the rock, that's someone else...fresca drinker. i would be consuming scotch, but i like having a choice. and jack daniels isn't really my thing...i own red furniture to counter the neutral requirements of the apartment complex...and something related to b&s, what can i say? anything i try to say will not even express how i really feel about them. i just wish i could find someone in the valley that loves them too. but now i am getting myself depressed. no one to love, no one to share music with, and all i have is a cold apartment in a town that will probably kill me. marikka. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+