hello everyone: vietnamese noodle soup, the innocence mission (did anyone follow Jim Schmidt's recommendation and find it as sublime as I did?), a car accident in the rain ... I'm still a happy girl. I'm learning to bellydance and I've no belly (just tummy and it's just not enough) It's been more than a year since I've gotten on the list and I'm none the wiser. last night I was making chat with a girl (who incidentally doesn't like pink. I don't like pink so that's what's called bonding), and amid all our circular wanderings about our insufferable problems I said, "ten years ago I was twelve" and started laughting, because all of a sudden all the problems big as buildings towering over us really seemed silly. Ten years ago I was reading Nancy Drew mysteries and Sweet Valley Highs and wishing for love. Ten years later I'm reading David Foster Wallace and East of Eden. Everything's the same, just there aren't happy endings. Books for "older" people never do. i'm really liking the list a lot lately. It's been awhile since i've corresponded to people on the list. (Hello you people. Christa, did you get my tape?) especially the love rants. to the boy on the bus, you should go and say hello. my buddy robert's been chatting up a girl in a flowershop of late, and that's always the best sort of story, even if there's a bad ending, or even if there's no ending, and the romance is just sort of forgotten before it's really begun. As much romance as possible, if possible, i say. even if it ends in crushing loss. Just to have the ability to be romantic is beautiful, enough to make life worth living. Cynthia okay, bye ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+