Good morning darlings, I hope you all slept well. Last night I had the good fortune to bump into my friend Kate who invited me for vodka drinks, the effects of which I am still feeling. In a good way though. Whenever I have been drinking the night before I rarely sleep past eight the next morning. So I'm sitting here with some pretty astounding bedhead and finally getting around to writing to you all. I've been back at school for two weeks now, after having gone to California, and then to Iceland. The California trip was with my family, meaning my brother and I had a great time goofing off and my mother ruined it by being miserable and trying to make the trip a Wholesome Family Vacation. Not only that but she gave me crap about drinking too much soda. Yet, I did get a picture of myself taken caressing Wayne Newton's star on the walk of fame (which we had to park in front of a porn shop to get to) so I guess I won out in the end. Iceland was amazing. I partied with Russian in Reykjavik on New Year's Eve. The Russians were fantastic. They shared with us what they had, bought us pizza, drove us to the mountains and the blue lagoon, and hardly even tried to woo us. On the whole the trip was lovely and astounding. Unfortunately it was marred by my supposed best friend doing something mindnumbingly crap to me at the end of it. We still need to have a talk. We did bump into sigur ros in Keflavik on the way home. They were all smiley and polite. I want to take them home and cook them a good meal. On a vaguely content related note, I have been taking belle and sebastian for walks with me. It's been very solitary lately with the butt-biting cold we've been having, but I like it all the same. I love to walk around campus listening to music, singing along ever so softly. I love to disappear into the trees and buildings and people who don't know me. Belle and sebastian is good for that because it makes me smile, and when I'm walking amongst people who don't know me I try to smile at them, in the hopes that I can make a stranger smile. Now that you've scrolled and skimmed I'll do my usual begging for some kind of Boston meet up. I realize that the aforementioned butt-biting cold makes picnics a lot less fun, so maybe we could go to the aquarium, or museum of science, or sushi and karaoke. I'll even be in charge if you want. Email me, call me (picnic) mommy, and I'll lift a car to save your life (because mothers can do that when their young are endangered) Love and fireworks, Kara www2.bc.edu/~brielman _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+