so it's not really winter...it feels like it. it feels good. the cold led me to hurry to my car after work tonight, and i worried for a bit when my key would not turn in the lock. it wasn't that cold. glancing through the window, i wondered when and why and in what state of mind i had purchased this month's issue of "cosmopolitan." looking more closely, i then wondered when and how i had acquired a baby, necessitating the small white child's seat in the back of the car. i looked around for a moment, then removed my key and walked two spaces over to my own car. no "cosmopolitan." no baby seat. the key turned and i got in and shivered. partly because of the cold, and partly because something just felt creepy. it wasn't a big deal..i was just really glad.... i'm starting a new job on thursday, serving all varieties of noodles to the good people of brookfield. they're all talking at the shop...placing small bets on how long i'll last before i come crawling back. i probably will, too. i'll probably be a fine noodle bar employee for two weeks, and then one morning ann will go in to open the shop and when she turns on the lights she'll see me standing outside with my nose pressed against the window, shivering in my beloved girl scouts shirt and clutching a plastic grocery bag full of cds, pleading please not to send me back, they make me wear a uniform and listen to wklh. and they'll take me back, i know. it's good to know. it's an okay job. besides that, it's just nice to have something...stable. i've been thinking about the holidays. the christmas tree went up in the mall today, which is almost terrifying. my mom wants to go to the cayman islands for christmas. the whole family. it's a nice idea, but it would be like this: mom and dad walking on the beach. allie picking up boys. david and kirsten sitting in a tiki bar. the whole time. i told my mom that, and she reluctantly admitted it herself and i don't think we were really going to go anyway. i thought some more...about taking my own little trip after christmas. i need to stay for christmas....apparently. the church choir is still counting on me for the hallelujah chorus, like every year...i'm surprised they remember me, really. but they do. and i have to do it. again. i'm not sure about going anywhere anyway... i spoke to a certain ken on the telephone today...cool. kewl. he does a mean jerry springer man-who's-actually-a-woman accent. my left leg has been hurting for several days, and i have to say i'm a bit worried about it. there's just no reason...i'm a horrible hypochondriac. sitting in the grey stairwell on my break reading a book this evening...there's a man who has walked past and found me that way nearly every day for the past year and a half. and every day, the same conversation. "good book?" "hm? oh, yes. quite." "good, good." then he usually says something about how it's not really that nasty outside and that i should go downstairs and join him for a smoke on the sidewalk, and i always say no, thank you. but he says it anyway, every time. it is a good book, anyway. my leg is hurting something fierce. i must have meepmeeped into a parked car or something. *sigh* love kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+