Hello. another friday night on the job. good thing it's not too demanding. what i'm doing besides work to kill the time: 1) wrapping big boxes in lovely foiled christmas paper to set out for my local toys for tots campaign 2) listening to an electrician tell me that if i never get married or have children, he'll keep me supplied in batteries (ha!). he's having a rough time with his daughter. a little too rough, he won't stop pacing. he's advising me to stay "aunt amy" to my friends children and never put myself through the agony of being a parent. 3) trying to figure out who in their right mind would send me a crush! goodness! lil' ol' me??? if someone doesn't fess up, i'm going to crush on all of you! 4) listening to tigermilk 5) drinking copious amounts of coffee 6) taking phone calls from girlfriends about our night out planned for saturday (sorry chicago) 7) calling around to see if i can get better prices on faucets and such for my bathroom. i paid $150.00 today for some new bathtub water works 'cuz, well, it's too long too explain. a repairman is coming by saturday (another reason i couldn't go to chicago) to cure my plumbing ills and it's all just getting so costly. but, it will help save in the long run too. my water bill is trippled and my gas bill, you don't even want to know.... 'cuz i'm wasting so much hot water right now. 8) mailing sinister! wow! it's really bad when you email people about your plumbing. maybe i should go back to this book about the taliban i picked up the other day..... a "liberal reader" the woman at the hallmark store called me as i purchased said item. ha. or, i could write a pocket novel about the state that i am in, 'cuz it's an interesting one. i don't feel "christmas-y" yet. there's no snow. so, it's just not happening. i like lists. today, as i left a hardware store, i saw a group of about 60 school kids dressed up all goofy and touting instruments. i imagine it was the local jr. and high school kids making some christmas-y rounds. they followed me out of the parking lot for a moment. 60 kids in stripes, leopard prints, clashing argiles and clown suits banging away on their drums and such, following the super tempo. i wish they would follow me around all the time, during the day that is. would make the odd trip out for milk a bit more .... of an event. belle and sebastian song of the day: "she's losing it" amy knows a tub that's been abused it changed her financially and put her in a mood she's always redoing her pilot light she freaks out about it every night sometimes goes elsewhere to shower her back she's using loofas and sponges and rags she wishes someone would help her out 'cuz her wallet's got a lot to be mad about and just after the first tooth brush she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when the first stream of water takes a rusty dump she knows she's losing it oh yeah she's losing it amy met andy, a plumber who's keenly new he didn't charge too much and took away her blues until he showed her another bill and she tossed a few amy was the girl who's unlucky too her pocketbook is broken and kisses are few she says, "cent for cent and pound for pound who needs a plumber when I'M AROUND?" and with the first dew of morning she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when the millionth stream of water costs her a whole bunch she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when she shuts off the hot water just to save a buck she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it adlib to fade, la dee da. and ta ta and hello and goodbye and love to all, amy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+