dearest listerines -- i have awakened from a drunken fog only to find myself... back at the office. grrr. at least it's tuesday morning and not monday... i spent my 4th-of-july weekend in lovely boston, which i hadn't visited since our 7th grade class trip. mostly i lolled around my best friend's UNairconditioned apartment in brighton, but we also managed to get ourselves to a britpop party at some place called The Upstairs Room, above a sports bar! my two friends, who live in boston and had access to their own closets, were tres mod, but alas! i was stuck in my darkdenim flares and my study@stow shirt... hey, i figured, b&s are british! and pop! right? right? anyway... the music started to deteriorate into motown or something, but the highlight was definitely dancing to morrissey. i thought of you lot! and now my stow shirt is disgustingly sweaty and smoky and dirty, and i may well have spilled some of my martini on it, too... but i am reluctant to let my mum throw it in with all the other laundry, after that horror story ... was it blake? who told of his mum ruining his shirt? shudder to think it, eh? my friends (in boston) and i decided, while wandering through the commons/park area, that american holidays, like 4th-of-july and thanksgiving, tend to highlight all the things about us that are embarrassing, as a country. what do we do on the 4th? cook immense amounts of food and be disgustinly slothful and hot all day. what about thanksgiving? cook immense amounts of food and be disgustingly slothful and watch an inferior sport on t.v. all day.... ewww. fireworks are pretty, though, especially from a city rooftop when you have had far too many pina coladas and clove cigarettes! oh, archel mentioned Cruel Intentions and the american pronunciation of "sebastian" as "sebasjun"... um, yes, over here we say it like that. i wasn't aware that the british way was to pronounce all the syllables -- se-bas-ti-an. i thought stuart was trying to rhyme it, or just being cute... nope, this side of the ocean it's "bellen sebasjun". unless someone is putting on airs, or maybe after listening to the songs so much the "sebas-ti-an" comes naturally... aaghhh! i've gone on too, too long! i need a cigarette! but i work on the 9th floor and "stepping out" for a break is more like an ordeal... oh, one more thing: is honey alright? i remember a mention of illness, and i'm a mite concerned... take care, all. xoxo, marie === "i wish i could live on air and music" - hot water music ********************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass (j.d.s.) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+