(once upon a time) So I was a bit nervous about showing up for the San Francisco picnic-in-a-bar because I'd heard from other Sinisterines that the attendance record in the past was less than purrr-fect. Mainly, no people showing up at all. But, in my curiousity to meet some of these people I decided to chance it. Just my luck, I was the first one there and since we hadn't given very good descriptions (except Tara, who was very explicit) I was stuck standing by the wall in a very crowded bar,looking around for other lost-looking people who arrived by themselves. I went up to one girl and said, lamely, 'Are you looking for people you know? Or people you don't know?' She was very nice about it, but I must have looked like an ass. After that experience, I just smiled brightly at anyone solo coming in, and the bouncer/check ID guy must have thought I was picking up tricks or something. After what seemed like hours (and was probably twenty minutes) I got a smile which answered my own from a girl who interestingly enough, I had always thought was male (from her posts, not her looks of course). And then suddenly, more people came out of the woodwork, and it became what I hoped it would be-- interesting people talking about Belle and Sebastian, music, bowlie, and even at one point, thanks to Youn, linguistics. So the rest of you Bay Area kids, try to come to the next meeting (probably before Looper, I'd imagine) we really won't bite! Julie _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+