i've just been out with a friend from work. we went to a boy's house....there were two of them. boys, that is. the girl's name is corin, and the boys are her friends. she said they would be on the "patio," which i had imagined to be a slab of concrete decorated with plastic furniture and potted plants. instead, it was a little building full of nice furniture and expensive-looking electronic devices. it's in the backyard, so maybe that makes it a patio....or something. the boys were funny. they kept saying silly things and giggling, watching me try to hide under the table in embarrassment. they were listening to rap music and one of them was positively dripping with gold jewelry and he let me try on a three-karat diamond ring and, for once in my life, i actually did feel a bit like j-lo. i didn't much like the look of it there on my thumb. i gave it to corin and she took another one and held them up like earrings and pretended to be a princess and batted her eyelashes, and she really did look nice that way because she is a diamond sort of girl. i used to make rings out of the little green paper twisty ties you get for produce bags at the grocery store. corin and i played with diamonds. i felt underdressed. so i came home and on the way i thought and smoked and kept the window rolled down even though it was raining. the rain looked something like snow tonight, and i decided i would like nothing more than to stay in hiding for a few months and come out when everything is covered in a white blanket of snow and all that's on television is "it's a wonderful life" and i can lie on my back and squint at the lights on the tree so that the beams shoot out in every direction. i am not a fan of holidays at all. especially christmas because it means weeks of hell at work...stressed-out shoppers, lame glittery snowflakes hanging everywhere, and everyone's favorite, the RuPaul ho- ho holiday album. but right now, it just sounds...nice. xoxo kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+