Sinister: memories of when honey was just "paul"

[kerry]

Hello sinister.
it's been a while, and i've been enjoying your posts. it seems to me 
the list has been very literary-minded over the last few weeks, a lot 
of posts that read like short fiction, rather than little notes to 
strangers. sometimes like both at once, though, which i like. so 
thank you for sending it all my way, no matter how indirectly or 
unintentionally.
so, tonight i was procrastinating and i decided to figure out when i 
joined this list in the first place. it turns out i got my "welcome 
to sinister" email on july 27, 1998. i've been rereading the FAQ 
included compared with the current one and have discovered a few 
things. least surprisingly, the new FAQ is longer, but only by about 
3 questions. more surprisingly, i found this as the last question of 
the old FAQ:

>24. What sort of presents can I send to Paul to show him I love him?
>
>
>A very good question - honey of course, rude postcards or silly
>little toys.
>

the new FAQ says this:

>27.  What sort of presents can I send to Honey to show my love?
>
>A very good question - honey of course, rude postcards or silly little toys.
>

notice that slight little change there? our honey used to actually be 
called by his given name! why don't i remember this clearly? he's 
always been list mummy hunny to me. i'm sure those of you who are 
tried-and-true oldskoolers on the list are probably not shocked and 
amazed by this, but what can i say? i'm easily amused.
speaking of easily amused, i was at work yesterday and i wore my 
study at stow shirt and the cutest little indie boy came in and i 
sold him a french press and a half pound of coffee, thinking how nice 
would it be if he was a belle and sebastian fan and noticed my shirt 
(even though all but that upper "s" curve was hidden by my apron), 
but no luck. we'll just have to see if he ever comes into the store 
again. hey! maybe he's on the list and now i should be thoroughly 
embarrassed if he is.
but i truly have to get back to work, i just don't want to.
oh, and for the record, back some many months ago (possibly a couple 
years), chris jones's posts were all dated 1996, and so they ended up 
at the top of my "sinister" mailbox, and i was lucky if i remembered 
to check up there. well, once every couple months i stick most of the 
mails i have in my "sinister" folder and put them into an archived 
folder. tonight, in order to find the "welcome to sinister" message, 
i had to look in the archive. anyway, i found about three posts from 
chris jones that had never been read. and i just wanted to apologize. 
i'm guessing they ended up at the top of the mailbox and i moved over 
the old stuff without checking for them, so, chris, if you're still 
on the list, i'm sorry i didn't read those posts. i'll do it tonight, 
i swear.

-kerry
-- 

"here i am, this is me. i am yours and everything about me, 
everything you see . . . if you only look hard enough."
	                              -tindersticks, "my sister"
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