Hey there, Wow! It's been a long time since I posted (waiting for someone to acknowledge her absence) (still waiting) Well, anyway...I'm back, and I'm not going to ask a stupid B+S question that everyone else asks like I used to. I'll tell you a humiliating story about B+S instead. I've been at college since August now (Carnegie Mellon University, if you want to know) and I have not seen *one* person with Belle and Sebastian badges on their bookbags or person. It's been quite upsetting. But I was walking out of bio class on Friday and ran into a guy I knew who was talking to his roomate. He stared in shock at my bag, and then said "josh, josh, she's got the pins!" It took me a second to discern that "the pins" wasn't some disfiguring facial abnormality, but when I saw josh eagerly showing me his bag (which had all nine badges on it) I quickly figured out what he was referring to. Well, to make a long story short, neither one of us had ever met anyone else on campus who like Belle and Sebastian, let alone someone who would put badges on their backpack. So everything's just going really great, and I'm walking and talking very enthusiastically to this (awfully cute) guy who likes my favorite band in the entire world, and I just get the words "what's your favorite album?" out before I walk right into a pole. Oh, the shame. Being the nice guy that he is, he didn't laugh...his eyes just wrinkled up in a show of (hopefully not fake) concern, and he said "are you all right?" And I had to say that yes, I was, and it would have been all right if some jerk behind me hadn't yelled out at the top of his voice "DID YOU JUST RUN INTO A POLE?" ha ha...very funny. Possibly the most embarassing thing that's ever happened to me, and it was B+S related. Nobody on this list can probably relate, but hopefully you can all either feel bad for me or laugh at me behind your hands. I think Jen (the owly girl) and I should start up a Belle and Sebastian related injury club. Wow, I'm even laughing at myself now. That felt healthy. Oh, and one more thing...even though I ran into a pole while I was talking to him, josh lent me the amazing dog on wheels single. Does anyone else think that the first guitar riffs off of track 3 are exactly the same as that offspring song "the kids aren't all right"? Does anyone even *know* that song? Okay, just checking. Watch out for poles, Laine +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+