Hello Sinister! -Introduction- We've been snowed in today, so no school - yay! In English class we get told to balance our paragraphs in terms of length, thus I had to add this wee bit at the beginning to make it look better. I tried to post last week, but I think my email must have ended up in a Sinsinati newspaper's inbox instead. N.B. I don't usually post because I hate saying "I". There, I can start now. -Big fat stinking clichés- Last week at school we had a seminar on the theme of change. The very utterence of the word "seminar" had us all wretching in a kind of pre-emptive boredom-induced hysteria. Or something. Anyway, we had to sit there and listen to this man (he looked suspiciously like Paul Daniels - I was surprised that my friends didn't see the resemblance until I realised I had been saying "Look! Look! It's Phil Collins!" Never been good with names.) tell us how fate is a load of crap and that we should get off our arses and make things happen. We were made to write letters to ourselves. Apparently said letters will be posted to us in a few months' time to make us realise that we haven't "Become more optimistic!" and don't "Have a more positive outlook!" and therefore are worthless individuals. I was just upset because I wasn't the only person to have been wonderfully witty by writing "SWALK" on the front of my envelope. -Rock me, Amadeus- I've recently discovered the joy of mp3s and minidiscs and stuff. I'm listening to a wider range of music now, which is always a good thing - I can download stuff I wouldn't be seen dead buying ("Good sir, fetch me one "Steps: the Best Of" please!"*). However, I do not endorse illegal downloading, honest. So, watch out, kids.** -No war, please- I was in Dumfries on Saturday, and managed to walk through the middle of an anti-war protest without realising at first. I stood with them for a while, but there was only about fifteen people, and no-one was holding up their banners or saying anything. Actually, maybe they were just queuing for chips and a bit pissed off that people kept coming and offering support. -Content- I had a dream about Stuart M (honestly, I'm not making it up to make this seem appropriate) last week. He was on a regional news programme on channel 3 (if anyone gets "Border" tv, you know the kind of thing they show ("Your Wheelie Bin and You")) telling people to check their bonfires for hedgehogs before they set them alight. He's so sweet. -Mini ink polaroid- I'm sitting at the computer wearing a pink bobble hat and blue boots. I've made some cocoa. I'm writing a post when my friend phones to arrange a sledging time. We choose lunchtime. I get the atlas to see if Sinsinati is really a place, and if so how it's spelt. I'm still undecided. I try not to dwell on it. -Leslie Ash- That's what happens when you eat too many Jaffa Cakes and the orange goo gets stuck in yer teeth! -And finally- The sun's just come out. All the snow from our roof is falling onto the pot plants of the wifie that lives below us. I think I'll go and clear it later.*** I'm off to dig out my sledge. Keep warm (or cool; whichever is appropriate to your hemisphere) and be sweet, Lucy xxx *Disclaimer - it is a good five years since I was, in any way, involved with everyone's favourite Redcoats. **I heard someone say "watch out, kids" last week. It was quite creepy, actually. ***The old woman's actually kinda crazy, and almost killed some of our cats "by accident" ("Woopsee, didn't mean to leave that pot of boiling oil teetering above the cat flap like that!") on a few occasions. ======================================== "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it ." - Groucho Marx. ======================================== +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+