I agree with every single word Daniela said about X-mas. "I hate Christmas. I hate this time when people are obligated to get along with others they don't like, or they don't even know the names. I consider Christmas time hypocrit and I hate the end of the year." You know, X-mas for me is when grandpas and grandmas (both sides) arrives at MY place (I'm 18, so I still live with my parents, arght.... but my father's parents are reeally lovely. Too bad I can't say the same about mom's parents...). That's when I get to lend my car and drive people here and there - so they can visit the important places (I live at Brazil's capital), that's when I have to pretend I'm all happy because my aunts are here, and pretend I agree with every single comment they make about my clothes (black all the time, I sometimes do look a little goth, sorry you folks who said you hate them.... even though I'm not goth. I just like to wear black clothes and make-up)... pretend I like to be asked a hundreds of times about the boyfriend I don't have... pretend to enjoy being with the aunts who go tell dad I arrived home at 2 am (that's my coming-back-home-hour), "how does he let his little daughter (I'm the oldest) arrive that LATE?" oh gosh, I hate that. I really hate pretending. The Universities' strike is over, so I must start having all my classes (I was just having 3 out of 7) next week, and that means no vacations for Ana for the next year, and maybe the other one... that sucks. But a nice thing happened today, maybe that's why I'm writing... there aren't many B&S fans here (Brasília). I was at college, waiting for my class to start, and I was walking and singing Le Pastie de la Bourgeoise and this cuuute guy stopped me and said "A Belle and Sebastian fan? I must be dreaming..." and we started talking and that made me happy for the rest of the day (when I started writing that x-mas thing I wasn't, of course, but I remembered this and now I'm happy again!) All right, that's it, I guess. Take care Ana ps: so now there are 3 brazilians on this list who hate the x-mas... and for the very same reason... and thx beto for remembering me how ridiculous it is to put a pinus tree with fake snow on it and guys dressed in red like it was -10°C out there... when it's actually almost 30°C.... "You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be" (Rush, Anthem) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+