i have just made myself sick. well, sort of. i just spent a fortune to travel to a country where i do not speak the language and the occupants do not speak my native tongue. all this to prove that i am young and with a job that pays enough to allow me to do so. i am also desperate to see the friend who promised two years of her life to the peacecorps and mongolia. no one goes to mongolia except geologists and historians. well, so i qualify, but i am not going there for geologic purposes. and after a couple of days explaining my vacation request, the bosses relented. perhaps my boss, who is luckily also a friend, convinced the higher-ups that i might just walk out if denied vacation. i shall have a greater claim now to the "crazy girl" title that has been bestowed upon me. and then to top it off, i will be in san francisco for a week. and i will be seeing belle and sebastian twice on the weekend before that week. i'm terrified. i know that they shall not let me down, but what if i let them down, or even worse, what if i turn into a screaming fan and go into hysterics? what if i go into a fit and injure the friends who shall accompany me? all could happen, but the odds are greater that i will not believe that i saw them and just go about my life as if nothing happened, until i remember a tiny detail about the shows. i am too excited. i am buzzing. i do not believe that i have ever really buzzed. maybe i will travel the world now chasing belle and sebastian simply for the buzz. anyway, little content. and if anyone has any true tales of travel in mongolia that pertain to this century or the last decade of the previous, please send them my way. i need to know that i am not crazy, just adventurous. marikka. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+