good morning you lot! that subject line is plagarized, so i must give due credit to john updike because, well, he's the one who wrote it. it's a sentence in the very beginning of "rabbit, run" which i am reading right now (well, not at this very moment but, well...) incidentally, i've only started the book--i think i am on page 20 or something, but that's with small print and everything--but i really like. and i guess that that quote relates to me in some way because i just came back from having a morning sneak o' the ciggy (a mint nat s!) i just saw (in the bathroom after the cigarette) that i had a bloody nose last night. it was really faint, dried, crusty (ew, sorry), etc. because i literally rolled out of bed, grunted a few times, put on the clothing i had yesterday (including my cute new shoes), and stumbled out the door--never once looking in the mirror. maybe i knocked myself in my sleep (i'm v. self-abrasive). but i just thought that that was rather odd considering that the last (and first) time i had a bloody nose was in ninth grade when i went to the bathroom to escape geometry class. anyway, i DID have a reason for posting and acting as a litter bug to all those 1100+ inboxes... oh yes, i believe it was the adored lesley jo who suggested that b&s have a gig at the warhol here in pittsburgh. and i say "yeah, what a wonderful idea": and if the don't readily relent, then let's tie them up, give them a little bloody nose and force them too! wow, i'm not really that violent (actually i abhor violence). but i DO tend to get a bit obsessive about things so maybe that's the reason for that sudden outburst. on the subject of fraternities/sororities, at my school, they actually formed from these debating societies of the school (i had to write an article about that). but it really depends on the person. yes, i don't understand why people would pay to be part of a group like that but i understand that some people just *like* it. i know that my mum joined a sorority because she had no friends who were female. i also know a seemingly friend of mine who joined a fraternity and then stopped talking to me and avoided eye contact. but i also have a friend who became much nicer to me after he joined one (though he wouldn't take me to their formals--when he needed a date and i said i would go with him he laughed at me). so the majority are like that, but there are some lovely exceptions. anyway, here i could add all my troubling years of growing up without friends (sadly, unlike jessicaxo, with only bad top40 music until a few years back) but i'll go now instead. i think my nose may be bleeding again, KIMberry xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+