Hello again everybody, As I am about to be catapulted into another enforced silence I thought I might share a few aspects of my life at the moment. That's if anyone's interested...... I have a new mother. And a new father too. Which is all slightly odd. I've not met them yet, I don't know what they're like. But I got a letter from my mother today telling me who she was. Quite considerate I suppose. It's not that I've abandonned or carelessly lost my current parents, it's just I've got some more to go with them. It seems a good idea in many ways. You must have your work cut out for you being a parent. I have a new brother and sister too, who I'll enjoy meeting I hope. Eh, what is going on? you might ask. Well, it's quite simple. I'm about to embark on university life, and they reckoned I might need some parental love and care to protect me from the wicked lures of my demanding tutors. Rather kindly, one of them wrote me a letter too, a very nice letter of introduction, rather usefully suggesting that I should write an essay about George Eliot - I can't remember the exact title, but it was about how her novels progress from the abstract to the concrete, and how her characters eveolved from the moral consciousness - before I go up. It's nice to know I'll be able to find some use for my brain again, and if Mum (#2) would make me cups of tea to stimulate me it might help. (In an ideal world there'd be a Mum #3 too, who wears maternal pink pyjamas.) So that's why I'm going to be quiet - I'm back to my computerless place in England to muse over pastoral carpenters, and rose-cheeked maids while trying to get to know my parents. Surely scope for a Belle and Sebastian song in that? I'll be back on when I'm more settled, and have discovered the university computer room. B&S content? Erm, I remember a while ago someone talking about Lisa and Chelsea going to a school where the boys go with boys and the girls with girls, and thought in the light of Marcus being mistaken for a lesbian that it would probably be an abortive experiment (because some boys look like girls and vice versa). Do I make sense? I knew a girl once who said that homosexuals should be allowed in the army, but should be separated from the heterosexuals. Struck me as odd. I had visions of a Gay Pride pink air craft carrier floating on the waves, and fun and games with rifles..... Not of course that they couldn't serve a purpose in a heterosexual relationship. Sorry, that was a bit sick. I'd better go. Alex ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+