Hello.. Can you believe it? A whole digest without a single post from me within. I guess I must have been busy this morning. Hey, I was a lurker for a morning, how about that? I�m back doing my whole sneaky-sneaky thing at work right now. A bunch of stuff in no particular order: I�m really enjoying kiwi fruit at the moment. Did I tell you about my health kick? (*yawn*- a thousand sinisterians). I keep eating kiwi fruit. Its not as good as chocolate, but for comedy value, it�s the next best thing. I was asked if I had still given up smoking cigarettes by Rachel Fruitloop Well, in answer to your question, it�s a sort of yes. The only time I have been naughty and unable to resist the fiendish temptations of cigarettes was on Saturday, when I met up with someone from Sinister. Oh, and the Saturday before that as well, when I went to a gig. You must forgive me though, because my excuse is feeble, but you know, on both occasions, it was sort of eek, new people. I went to the gig on my own you see, and spoke to people. But in order to cope, I had to smoke. So I did. I think that�s fair isn�t it? Otherwise, I�ve been a good girl and resisted. Was shocked to discover that the original goody-two-shoes, my mum, actually used to smoke herself. Apparently only when she was out drinking, and it �didn�t count�. But I informed her it did. If you smoke cigarettes, you are a smoker. If you drink you are a drinker. If you swim you are a swimmer. If you run you are a runner. If you have sex you are a �. Argue with me as you please on this. Archel said she got an e mail from Stuart Murdoch about buses. Well poo to that, I got one from Astrid and she said cool stuff that made me smile and inspired me to pick up my guitar (and put it down again after fifteen minutes) then start work on writing stories, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it, girly. ;-) Its cool what the effect of a stranger can have on you. Send someone off this list a random e mail. Go on. Just to them, tell them something. I sat up late last night, writing in my notebook. I wrote about the labels in the cloakroom when I was little at school, where the teacher wrote your name on a piece of card and there was a picture next to it. I wrote about having wet tights. I wrote about dancing with the boys nobody ever wanted to dance with for ceilidh dancing at school, a few weeks before the Christmas party. I wrote about the way their sleeves were always too long on their jumpers, and you found your own hand being covered by them. The way those boys always looked at the floor, and the way they never held you in their arms like they were supposed to, the way it was as if you were disgusting or dirty or something. (maybe that was just me.). But probably more likely because they were afraid- afraid of their friends teasing them and saying �you�re in love with idleberry! Wooo!�. Or afraid of their friends going one step further and telling that they did like me. And afraid of rejection added to their public humiliation, even if they weren�t interested in me, there would be nothing worse than someone you don�t want not wanting you either. Or maybe I just smelled funny. I haven�t quite decided. If anyone can suggest why boys didn�t want to hold me properly during ceilidh dancing when I was a teenager, I�d love to know. Advice: hold a lady like you hold yourself. I probably seem too keen for you right now. I�ve been posting too much recently. I sort of need to. It helps me pass the day, and I have all these thoughts aching to be released. Its odd, but I always have the best ideas when I�m too busy to think about them. I always find inspiration when I don�t have time for it. When I�m at home, and bored, and doing nothing much in particular, I don�t get inspiration, or ideas or thoughts to share. Any more takers for going out this weekend to the cinema? I heard that Camera Obscura are playing on the 24th at the Tron in Glasgow as well. I�ve heard praise about them from all sorts of people, and think I better go and listen and go to the cinema afterwards. Otherwise it will be like so many other things- I miss out on being able to join in the conversations because I don�t know what the topic is about. And even if the conversation isn�t that exciting for the participants, if you�re on the outside and listening in, it seems more enthralling. Topics of conversation I�ve never been able to participate in: Ted Hughes; Keats; Harry Potter novels; Tiswas; Swap Shop; Ataris; Joni Mitchell; Hard House; the difference between speed garage and garage; Ali G when he was still on the 11 o�clock show (I was in Norway then); Belle and Sebastian winning the Brit Awards (I was in Norway then, too); Bowlie (I was in Norway.. you get the picture); the North Berwick picnic; anything with French stuff or french words dropped in for effect; and a whole load of other stuff too. Of course, there�s a whole load of stuff I can�t be bothered to discuss, because I find it so boring. Heres a thought. I was going to ask �if you could ask anyone in the world, one question..� but decided to narrow it down to Belle and Sebastian, in order to get a little bit of content involved in this here post. If you could ask a member of Belle and Sebastian any one question, what would it be? You can make up their answer for them, if you like. And on that note, I shall depart. :-) love, idles xxxxx ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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