Hello. A strange inner force drives me yet again to pop my head up above the parapets and mail to the list. I have had a strangely good couple of days since I last posted - had a bit of a fling with a girl I work with and quite a nice week at work thus far. Spent a peculiar hour with my psychotherapy supervisor yesterday after lunch where we chatted about my patient - the more we chatted the more this otherwise quite pleasant patient became something of a grotesque. There is no innocence in psychoanalyis. I saw the patient before I started work today and I think it was all for the good - my chat had encouraged me to be a little more proactive and it seemed as if things went well. Perhaps I am having fantasies of salvation - there could be something to this mumbo-jumbo after all. Do people like London? I am not sure whether I am bored or not. Two of my friends whom I trained with have just got their (nurse) girlfriends pregnant - one is going to have a termination and the other is going to settle down with her. Both of them are completely battered by life at present - twentysomething is great when you have a bit of money but, as always, something stitches you up - although obviously they are in a large part responsible for 'the state they are in'. The reason I write this is that the one who is not settling down is thinking of fleeing and setting up a new life somewhere - where do you recommend? I am all for Glasgow as there are lots of beautiful Indian girls with Scottish accents. I think this is a good thing and probably quite close to what heaven is like, although I am no theologian. I guess the danger with moving is that one has to have the right reasons - I suppose we all try to recreate the past (for me this would be when I was 20/21 as an undergraduate) and there is a risk that one misconstrues geography for autobiography. Unlike Dr Who we can travel in space but not time. I'm not sure quite what I am saying here - I suppose as Wayne Campbell said 'live in the now dude'. (or was it Garth?) I have been scanning poor schizophrenic's brains most of the day but will try to pop into Woolies on the way home to buy some blank tapes to record some B+S and Tindersticks for my friend. Although the latter may be a little depressing... A chap called Alisdair e-mailed me with a question - I hope this is a sort of answer and I am eager to learn who Trouse is? For what it is worth I quite like Electronic Renaissance - a homage. Quite funny. For good health and greater happiness read Evelyn Waugh. Bye-bye. _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+