Hello foxes! I've just emerged from the nursery...charming place it was, but I rather felt like a cabbage patch doll with my body stuck in the ground and my head poking through the top of a cabbage, just waiting for a nice list mummy to come and pluck me out...so here I am at last, all decked out in my B+S t-shirt and Xavier Roberts scrawled across my bum (that'll be a chore to get off!). As you might have gathered by now, I don't have a point, except to say how pleased I am to see that there are other DC listees. I've only just moved here--straight out of college and very frightened--but I will most definitely make my presence known at the next capital city Sinister gathering (you do have those, right?) for I am sad and jealous of all those lucky ducks partying in London. There's still plenty of warm weather left... Ah well, in the meantime, I'll amuse myself with all of your witty and infinitely entertaining letters that I so look forward to. It's a glum day here, but I'm going to go sit outside for a bit. Oh yes, back when I was still trapped in the cabbage, someone sinister mentioned all the tourists in Union Station--well, I work just across the street from there and often spend my lunch hours watching (and laughing at) the throngs of tourists who come and go...an odd bunch, I must say. Yesterday, this woman spent at least five minutes intently videotaping a mob of pigeons fighting over a cracker! Then she taped the lunatic with a trumpet. I have to feel sorry for her, for when she gets home and shows the video to her poor unsuspecting family, she'll undoubtedly hear my friend and I in the background making sarcastic comments about her choice of noteworthy attractions. Here's another hint for all you potential tourists (something they won't tell you in a guidebook): it's not possible to ring the bell outside Union Station, but if you climb up inside of it, you can bang on the inside and make a wonderful racket! oh dear, my first post and I'm already off-topic, I do apologize. I hope everyone has a lovely sunny day, Phoebe ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+