Dear Sinister, I'm afraid the time has come for me to say goodbye and unsubscribe. It's not you, it's me. And all that. See, since finishing university and starting my new job (which is less a job and more a something else - a 'profession', perhaps? - in that it makes me grumpy and tired and unable to concentrate), my opportunity to be online has all but vanished. So, now, when I check my email about once a week, I have a godzillion emails to go through, and I feel permanently out of the loop. I haven't been in #sinister for ages either, something that I'm sad about, but feel unable to actually do anything about. But, Sinister has meant the world to me. Meeting people, sharing stories and misery around the globe, shameless slagging of bands, people, books..... I got the chance to meet people who were as similar and as different to me as to make them perfect, and drink copious amounts and dance to Kim Wilde and all those things that make life all shiny and new. I'm not quite sure which bits to pick out as the best, so I shan't pick out any. And I may resubscribe anyway, when I'm a little more organised on the work - life balance. Whatever the fuck that is. Sinister is a very special phenomenon. Many thanks to Honey and Linda, who I will continue to bother with text messages and pukingly-cute Christmas cards. I feel a bit foolish and overly wordsome, so I shall depart. Thank you all for making Sinister as special as it is, Much love Madeleine xxx _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+