Hardly any posts at all on All Saints Day - were you all in church? I understand that it might have been difficult for those in England to actually get to a computer, or maybe your computers have drowned, but where were the rest of you? Did you all have mad Hallowe'en parties and were unable to stand staring at flickery computer screens yesterday? Just out of interest, after all that mad weather darn sarf of late, is Autumn still allowed to be Sinister's favourite season? Of course some folks have come up with a marvellous idea to ensure that the weather doesn't get even worse in future years - cheaper petrol! Hmm... I'm currently recovering from a job interview of sorts that I had this morning, which was the first proper real life thing that I've done in months. I've decided that now is a good time to make the least of my talents and take on a temporary job for a few months which enables me to put off making any big decisions for a bit longer. This might not be the right thing to do, but heck, I've made an artform out of making the wrong decisions! I've worked in this place before, during summer breaks from university, and then it was enough just to exist and have a bank account for them to give you a job, but today I had to do all kinds of mad tests on computers and stuff. I was expecting that they'd just want to make sure I could hold a pencil. "Jings!" I thought, "perhaps I should have thought about this". I mean, many oragnutangs could do the work if they put their minds to it. Not chimpanzees, though. Too boisterous. What made it worse was that I was wearing my smart shoes, which although fantastic, make me walk like a girl and hurt my feet very much indeed, so I'm kind of hobbling around at the moment. But, hey!, that's enough about me. What have you been up to? Talking about Christmas songs from time to time (or is that passe now?). 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' was always more of an advent hymn than a Christmas one in my book, although I could be splitting hairs there. But it was always one of my faves as it is generally one of the first Christmassy-type songs sung in churches two or three weeks before Christmas, which made it dead exciting. Flicking through my hymn book I notice that there are five verses - will they do them all? If so verse four has a very poor rhyme indeed and for smuttiness, then wait until you hear the first line of verse two! Oo-er! It seems very odd indeed to be writing of Christmas songs when it hardly seems like any time at all since I was listening to poets in tents during the summer. Time's running and passing (etcetera...) November late afternoons in Edinburgh are so atmospheric. The low sun catches and illuminates the tenements and tower-blocks of Leith. It gets even better if the weather's bad. I'm feeling all Astral Weeks. Fill the rest in yourselves... Bye. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+