Yes, hello. How might you all be? I think some of you might say very well and some might just look at me and not say anything at all and which in this case I would know that meant awful. So I had a weekend from dream world. What do I mean? Oh well this is what happened....I am going on a trip to Europe and I have no money since my business decided it didn't want to work for about 2 months and silly me I kept spending like it worked better than ever. So I was hearing these things about these medical studies that take place the town over. I like the town over. It's pleasant. My friend's parents live there too...so we frequent it. OK back to the subject.....I decided to do one of these studies. It was to pay $830.00 and a friend loaned me a nice chunk too. Well, I go there on Thursday night....managed to find some nice boys to chat with about books and so on.....we all went to sleep knowing we were to be woken at 6 am to have tubes (IV's) into our arms. Ok so I wake up and manage to walk into the ward....there were 12 of us on this particular study....and after going through the hell of having tubes stuck into my veins.....the started to take my blood...out of one of the tubes mind you.....Ok to make this long boring story short...I got so so so sick from the med. they gave me. It was so awful.....I got to go outside like 2 times and it was this courtyard and all you could see when you looked up was this tiny patch of sky. Just awful. And everyone in there was smoking (there were 5 other studies taking place)....I found another nice boy....sort of a hippie...not my fav.....but he was so sweet. Then the throwing up started. I threw up so much and so violently.....my abs hurt very badly the next day. Not that you wanted to hear this. So I have to go back next week and do the same thing over. What have I become? It's quite sad to know you are subjecting yourself to torture for money. My veins are so bruised too....like a junkie. Then my batteries went out in my walkman and I couldn't listen to Belle and Sebastian or anything else for that matter. Oh well. I think it will be ok next week. I managed to paint my friends parents house yesterday and I also managed to walk about that town covered in my paint clothes and but some nice music. So what am I complaining about? Ok I am sorry to subject you to this awful email......maybe you won't have even read this far. But thanks if you did....Olivia +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+