that song....what i like about you...by the romantics....it's on the radio right now. i don't really like that song very much. ah well. the weekend was riddled with mayhem. my goodness. tornadoes everywhere. winds upwards of 50 mph. cold. rainy. ick. saturday i worked for an hour or two...then went...don't remember what i did to be honest. ah well. i guess it musn't have been too exciting. yesterday i met my family for breakfast. i intended on meeting them for 8:30 mass...my tummy had a different agenda apparently becuase when i woke up on sunday morning, my stomach was swollen, more than it has been in a long time. none of my clothes fit me and i wanted to die. i am thinking i should just bite the bullet, go ahead and schedule my endoscopy. at this point, what difference will an additional $7,000 in debt really make? i dunno. i really don't want to have these episodes though....they really aren't fun. so yes, breakfast. met for breakfast and everyone pestered me about why i wasn't eating. then i went to my brothers house (again) and he fixed my car (again). i am hoping that the car behaves for awhile. i also bought a l'il (foot)(soccer) ball air freshener :o) after that, i went to my cousin kelly's house. we don't really ever see one another as we both tend to avoid large family gathering type situations. i love my family....i guess...most of them anyway. my aunt kathy i could do without....grrrrrrr...... so we had a nice time. the insane storms of the weekend and the aforementioned wind storms brought some sadness. well, lots of it i s'pose. there is this giant pine tree that has been in my gram's yard for over 40 years. the wind blew it over. can you believe that? crazy. luckily it didn't hurt anyone, or the house, but it is sad to think of that big ol' tree not being there anymore :o) ah well. i s'pose those things happen don't they. trees fall...people fall....people die....trees give us oxygen. i dunno. perhaps many of you had read/heard about this high school girls scandal. there is a tradition amongst the suburban chicago girls in their junior and senior years in high school, to participate in a "Powder Puff" football (american footbal...gridiron, if you will :o) game. last weekend a group of girls held this years game at a local forest preserve as the school no longer sponsers it. in lieu of playing a game, the lovely senior class members, proceeded to hit, kick, and beat on the junio girls. in addition to throwing pig fecal matter, some sort of animal intestines, and a slew of equally disgusting matter, onto the underclassman. some of the girls parents were thoughtful enough to supply them with alcohol (which is illegal...must be 21 to buy, drink, or serve anything alcoholic in IL). smart girls, recorded the whole thing. several of them, i want to say 10? had to go the hospital, get stitches and a series of other things. i dunno. maybe i'm naive. maybe i am old. maybe i am turning into one of those people who say "when i was younger, we never would have done such things." honestly though, i don't think we would have. even the most popular kids in my school left the least popular alone. i participated in powder puff at my school...we never did anything even remotely like that. no organs thrown on anyone, no bodily fluids, aside from sweat perhaps, and we just played. we had fun. we didn't try to beat or mame or humiliate anyone else. weird. the girls who did the beating, throwing, etc, are facing criminal charges as well as discipline from their high school..even though it was off school grounds on a saturday. the parents who supplied the alcohol are going to be in shit loads of trouble as well. people are so crazy. hoping things are more sane in your neck of the woods... ~stine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+