As it is the season of final papers and such, I imagine this e-mail will contain political science-style citations, though I can't say for certain. I. Chicago, Illinois. Stine (C. Irene 7.3.03) says, "this year i think a group of friends and I are going to go to this place called Gaelic Park. Apparently all of the hip Irish Chicagoans go there." Well, as neither Irish nor Chicagoan, but rather of Irish descent and from the general Chicago area, I couldn't say for certain whether that's true. What I can say for certain is that I'll be In Chicago! on the 17th March, as that is the day my plane from Minnesota lands at the airport for spring break. This should be an exciting event for me; I've only ever seen the river turned green on television, and also I'll be going to see the Streets live and in person that very day. I'm sure other adventures will make themselves known to me in future, but for now the part about being in Chicago again after, um, a month, is the part that I like the best about this. II. How to Be Popular. I seem to have joined the blog webring which idleberry (R.^Sec 24.2.03) is in the business of maintaining. Although my blog is not yet the most popular site on the inter-web, I think that should probably happen in a week or two. III. Recent Weather Occurrences. Many mentions of snow have occurred in passing lately (C. Irene 7.3.03; rrrrobyn 7.3.03). Unfortunately, I cannot yet add to that number, as lately I've been jealous of the snow others have gotten whilst here all we get is cold weather and everyone, myself included, getting sick from it. However! we're supposed to get a bunch more snow tonight, which makes up for it a little. I'll have to spend all my Saturday inside, though, asking trivia questions to people and awarding them points if they answer correctly. That's the sort of thing I do with my weekends. Only usually I have to answer them myself. This generally doesn't have anything to do with the weather, although sometimes there are questions about clouds. IV. The Aislers Set. I don't get to see them play live due to the miracle of birth, and the fact that it occurred seven months too late for me to be 21 on time to get in. But I finally got the copy of the new album I ordered like three weeks ago, and I like it quite a bit. It reminds me in parts of the movie "Breathless" for some reason, and anything that makes me think of the French New Wave must be good. I think I'll listen to it again now. In conclusion, the football season I'm playing on the Nintendo right now isn't going as well as it was at first. But I should write a paper anyway. In like a lion, out like a lamb, -kevin Sources Cited* Irene, Christine. "Hello, My name is Nora Barnacle." Sinister, 7th March 2003. Retro^Sec. "picnics, anthems, and blog rings." Sinister, 24th February 2003. rrrrobyn. "you know me, i take nothing seriously." Sinister, 7th March 2003. --- "You should never wear your best trousers while going out to fight for truth and freedom." -- Henrik Ibsen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+