Life in PA drones on. My job hunt has produced two interviews tomorrow, one of which is for a job which pays $13 an hour. This, pardon my French, is fucking ludicrous in this town. That's more than twice what I made when I worked at the Waldenbooks in the mall and tried to force every customer to buy Dorothy Parker poetry and Invitation To A Beheading (to no avail, they still walked out with the latest Oprah book) . So wish me luck. Speaking of the mall, I went there today to drop off a roll of film in K Mart and was suddenly reminded that northeastern PA has its own dialect, and Hazleton's is even distinct from the rest of the coal region. I heard the word "hayna" used in conversation. "Hayna" is a request for affirmation, and in speech it sounds like "henna". Example: "Cold for this time of year, hayna? Pass the pitza." Pitza is another Hazleton only word...it's completely different from pizza. Pitza is, as far as I know, only made by two bakeries, Senape's and Longo's, and Senape's is the real stuff. It's basically cold, square pizza, sold in boxes with two layers of the greasy stuff. But, damn, it's good. It's properly consumed with Farmer's Ice-Tea. A true Hazletonian meal. Someone pointed out to me a while back that there's actually a Coalspeak dictionary online (www.coalregion.com/speak.htm), and it's pretty accurate, but they've got a few definitions wrong and I have too much of my pride left to correct them. Now, all this talk of PA/Jersey meetups! Well, after the first post I sent bitching about this godforsaken state, several nice listees emailed me with prospective ways to spend my time, one of which was the We Rule The School dj night in Philly on the 7th I think. I forgot who actually told me about it, and I forgot the specifics, and the email magically disappeared from my inbox all on its own. But anyway, if there are enough of us in eastern PA/Jersey/DE to warrant a meetup, why don't we just meet up there? But as a warning, my loyalties still lie with the New Yorkers. :o) Laura Llew, Mcmcmc claims that Kyle Maclachlan was just on the Daily Show talking about performing Shakespeare naked. And Ben has realized that you can't spell "street" without ree. Fuckin' A, who needs a tv when you have the #sinister peeps, hayna?? I wuv you all. xoxo Julie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+