Hello, anyways, I have only posted one other time, about a year and a half ago, and then I realised I didnt really have that much to say, and went back to lurking, and today, I still dont really have anything else to say but I thought I would perhaps stop the hiding and say hello to everyone again. Perhaps, since no one while remember me I had better introduce myself again..... Hi, my name is alan, and I am now 31 (please say it isnt so) and the last time I wrote I live in Dundee in Scotland, I now live in Washington DC in America, the last time I wrote I was engaged in a long distance romance with a cute lebenese american girl, well its now no longer a long distance thing, we got married in september; so in the last six months, I became a poor small town scottish boy living in the big bad america and a married man! being married is great, but the idea still freaks me out a little, how can I be married?? I can barely manage to dress myself in the morning and I regularly refer to Joanne and my girlfriend, which makes her laugh a little.... "but we got married....in a church" she cries So slowly but surely I am getting used to life in yankland; they drive on the wrong side of the road...can you believe that?? and I find the drivers and shop assistant rude for the most part (I dont what to offend any americans on the list) but I am sure there are exceptions. One of the best bits is that I can wander round museams all day and not have to pay a penny to get it! what a bargain, as I love museams; but on the downside I do miss my friends and my family; but we are going back for a holiday in june! We got a lot of snow last weekend almost 2 feet, so I had lots of snowy adventures, me and joanne had a snowball fight when we were suppose to be digging the car out, but she didnt want to build a snowman...and now its pissing with rain, which is melting the snow but there is a danger of flooding, but we live on the 3nd floor so our flat will be an refuge from the deluge, but I need more cigarettes so I guess I will have to put some boots and a jacket on an make my merry little way to the 7-11 to buy more, ironic really, I am willing to get soaked just for the pleasure of killing myself slowly. I keep promising myself that I will stop next week, but I always say that, I should really stop! I don't have a job yet, they havent seen fit to supply me with a work permit yet, so I spend my days, cleaning the house, doing the laundry; cooking dinner and baking cakes; I have become a proper little house wife, but I like cooking and baking, so its all fun for me, yesterday I made a great apple spice cake which tastes lovely with some birds custard I managed to find at a groumet food shop, sadly I cant find irn bru anywhere. so on that bombshell I will leave you and begin my trek for smokes, then I should really be thinking about dinner... hopefully I will manage to write again before next year, but if there is anyone on the list in this area, feel free to email me.. byeeeeeee Alan. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+