Procrastination: So ... there is this big chalk board in my office that had some sort of (American) football-related diagram on it when i moved in. Today I decided to clean it and use it as my own larger-than-life to-do list. It looks like this: 1. Finish grading papers 2. Edit submissions to journal 3. Prepare speech for Toronto 4. Prepare article for publication 5. Post to Sinister OK, it doesn't look like that - it looks like a chalk board - but that is what's written on it. However, the fact that you have this post in front of you should not be taken as a sign that I finished the other four things - oh, no no no no no ... Polish Paczki: Have I mentioned that I lived in Poland for a year? Though it was only three years ago, it rarely comes up in conversation anymore. The only reason it comes up now is that - much to my surprise - people in North West Ohio celebrate Paczki Day. For those of you who don't know, this is a traditional Polish practice that is the same as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday ... whatever you call it, wherever you are ... and to take part you just eat loads of jelly doughnuts (in polish: Paczki) on the Tuesday before Lent starts. When I was there, I ate about 15 of the things. This was not (only) due to my American eating habits but because every time I turned around, someone was handing me one. Of course, all my Polish friends gave something up for Lent on the following day, unlike me). I went out drinking - as usual - that Paczki Day night and the bartenders were even giving them out to the revelers. While beer and paczki may seem like Heaven Version 6.5 in theory, I found the practice to be less than agreeable. Paranoia of Provoked Privileges: I looked up twee on the internet and four of the links listed on my first page of results were B&S related. So ... I hope no one minds that I substituted twee-full content for B&S content (I am fairly certain that eating any pastry while drinking would be considered at least a bit twee ... hmm ... did I mention I was wearing a light blue cardigan sweater at the time?). I'm not sure if this substitution is officially sanctioned procedure but it does seem to be a fairly common practice. This Post has been brought to you by the letter P, Stewart [Amour Fou is always illegal, whether it's disguised as a marriage or a boyscout troop--always drunk, whether on the wine of its own secretions or the smoke of its own polymorphous virtues. It is not the derangement of the senses but rather their apotheosis--not the result of freedom but rather its precondition. - Hakim Bey] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+