greetings and salutations from the dark side of the moon. i hope that this finds all of you well. :o) the sun shines brightly in chicagoish today and i am trying to work up the courage to call this girl who posted an advert looking for a roommate. i don't know why things like this frighten me so. weird. i am also somewhat trepedatious about moving into a place with a stranger. unfortunately it is my only option right now. i just don't think i can handle living on my own, financially. on top of that, i am so scared of everything....much as i may like to live alone, i think i would be nervous all of the time. i mean, if someone breaks in and kills you when you have a flat mate, at least they can find you relatively quickly. if you live alone you become one of those urban legends in which your body wasn't discovered for months and, when found, wild dogs had eaten your skin and saved your organs for maggots. or something. maybe not. it was nice to hear from rachel fruitloop today. i have never communicated with her (you) offlist, but always loved reading her posts. i hvae been on this list for....6 or 7 years now...a long time. i miss all of the old posters :o) how is stacey dahling doing, anyone know? has anyone heard from elise or jim? i had her email addy in my old @home addy book....then @home went out of business with no warning and i lost everything. speaking of losing everything. i had to initialize my hard drive...again! a few weeks ago i crashed my computer and had to initialise it. i did so weeping. the thought of losing my 5000 mp3's (including much of my own music) and all of my beloved bookmark's broke my heart. so i was just re-finding some old favourite web sites, re-downloading songs, etc. a problem that i am continuing to have with the compatibility of my OS 9 burner and my OS X system, was leaving me slightly more than frustrated. i have a really expensive burner that has been useless to me for months! anyway, i was on the phone with apple 6 times on tuesday. the last guy i spoke to helped me find a hardware glitch that was causing all of these bizarre messages i was getting. the only way to try to fix it was to do one mutha of an initialisation. i had to set it up to programme all of the 1's back to 0's. everything gone....again. yesterday i re-installed OS 9 and then OS X....things seem to be okay now...that means I don't have to buy a new hard drive. yay! at the risk of making a really lengthy post, i shall share one last thing, and then be on my way. i really envy the sinisters in the UK. there are many of you and you always seem to have activities going on. i think there are, like, 4 people in chicago on the list...that i know of anyway. i feel that we mid-westerners need to make our picnic presence known. there was a picnic a couple of years ago...and a couple of gatherings when B&S were here last year....but nothing apart from that. we should change that. granted, we don't have ken chu, but i'm sure we could muster up a good time. hmm. ah well. i shall away now. dunno what is on the docket for today....i need to think of something intellectually stimulating for the girlies to do today. the divine miss em, aged 5, was so excited. we have been doing these science projects of late and today she brought the crystals she grew, to school to show her teachers and classmates. tre cool. love and physics ~stine __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+