In the mornings, when I am dressed for work, and have a bowl of cereal in my hands, my soaking wet hair tied in a turban of a towel, I go to draw the curtains in the livingroom. And more often than not, I see Mick C. He sits in the street, watching the house. And as soon as he spots a twitch of the curtains, Mick runs over, and starts tapping at the window. Sometimes, I just watch him, and don't do anything, I just eat. Sometimes, I hide from his view. Sometimes though, he comes into the house in the morning. He heads straight to the kitchen, for a bite to eat. Then he follows me around, to the bathroom, while I brush my teeth, or sits, perched on the end of my bed, and watches me in the mirror while I dry my hair. Sometimes he watches me put on my make up, and he'll pick up my blusher brush and play with it for a bit. He waits for me after work too. He knows what time I get home, and hes there, standing in the street waiting for me. He knows what tme I usually get home, and if I am late, he gives me a really dirty look. Hes a bit of an odd one, Mick. We have this strange relationship. Sometimes we ignore each other totally. Othertimes, we lie close together, cuddling, and I might purr a bit in his ear. He likes to play with my nail files too. He'll scratch his nails along it - I think he likes the feel. When I finish my driving lessons, he waits for me, pacing impatiently up and down outside the car, glaring in the window, while I pay the instructor. I have to say, I did catch him in my brothers bedroom one day, sniffing his underwear. He won't appreciate me telling you that of course. I left him to it. He had a bushy eyebrow the other night. I threatened to pluck it. It made him look like Norman Lammont. **************** Theres another in my life too. Only, we've never actually met. Its an unrequited crush, on my part. All through the summer, when I take the train to work, it passes by these flats. And I've seen this gorgeous italian type by one of these flats, just outside, every morning. The italian must be over 40 years old, I think, and quite sexy, in an unconventional way. I often find myself gazing at him, fantasising about him. What it would be like to go out with him. What outfit I would wear. Out of my league, of course, but it doesn't stop a girl from imagining. Me and him, together, listening to Simon and Garfunkel maybe, on sunny afternoons, going to the beach. So I'm inexperienced, and maybe, hes had more women than I've had hot dinners. But I can't help but wish he was mine. Theres a song, which reminds me of him, and when I see him, the lyrics to that song get stuck in my head. The song irritated me so much so, that I actually ended up having to buy the record, and play the song over and over, until I was sick fed up of it, and could put it to rest. He wasn't there this morning. I wonder if hes got someone new in his life. Smitten style Love Idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+