Awww, hi everyone! it is st. patrick's day! my very favourite holiday! the weekend was nice. saturday katie and i milled about, as we do. yesterday i loafed round the house., i was going to go to the south side irish parade....st. patrick's day is a HUGE deal in chicago..particularly in the area which i now reside in. i heard on the news that they anticipated 200,000 people would be there. i said that that was impossible, that parade gets that many people when it is 20 degrees and snowing...yesterday was BEAUTIFUL. sunny, 67 degrees....woo hoo! anyway, i avoided the parade. i don't like people, they scare me. instead katie and greg and i went to this lil pub in elmhurst. it was called McNally's and was just so lovely. there were real live irish people there when we arrived. we sat outside in the sun and chatted. it was my first SPD without attempting to drink a pint of guinness. i have never been one to imbibe, now i can't due to illnesses/medications. oh well. this establishment played only irish artists, u2 (rare u2 at that), thin lizzy, van morrisson....the usual suspects. then i said "i would be so impressed if they played rory gallagher" and guess what.....they did! aww, i was so happy. today is yet another glorious day in chicagoish. the downside being the eldest of my charges has the stomach flu. she has proceeded to throw up every 30 minutes or so since last night.... i think i have about a 15 minute window right now. yick! how absoluetly vile...or bile, as it were. :o) so the lovely mr kevin clair is heading back to these parts today. hopefully he and i can get together this week. also, i checked my inbox this morning to find an email from eoin and a post from dirty vicar. could this day be any better? well, i suppose if i were no longer getting vomited on it would improve greatly. :o) ah well. i have nothing to say really, i just couldn't let my favourite holiday pass without a post. love to you all~ L� 'le P�draig!!!! ~stine __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+