Sinister: curses, foiled again!

[erin]

As I am one of the great un-religioned masses, I had 
to become a missionary for someone other than 
Christ.  I chose Belle & Sebastian.  I must be the 
world's most unpersuasive missionary, however, as 
my last attempt ended not in making the boy a fan of 
B&S, but rather making him an enormous fan of 
“Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It” and the 
idiosyncratic line “You only did it so that you could 
wear terry underwear...”  I did, however, try my very 
best, and perhaps the fact that he adores “Carriage 
Clock” possibly more than his ‘Horowitz plays Chopin 
sonatas’ CD (which is saying quite a lot for this 
particular boy) is reward enough.

I came home on Friday to find someone new living in 
my room.  All I asked for Christmas was a new 
roommate who likes good music.  I don’t know what 
I’ve done this year that was so unspeakably heinous, 
but I got a roommate who listens to nothing but rap 
and owns an incredible amount of shoes.  No, quite 
literally -- they’re all neatly lined up in several rows, 
Imelda-Marcos-style, under her bed.  She owns the 
same white pair of Adidas with two colored stripes on 
the side in six colors alone (1 pair = $50 [on sale] 6 
pairs = $300 -- *for the SAME shoe!*).  If a riot ever 
broke out in the dorm, we could ride it out behind a 
make-shift bunker of roommate-shoes.  Or, more 
likely, if we come close to killing each other, she may 
come home to find a wall of shoes neatly cemented 
down the the center of the room.

Kieran mentioned getting hit by cars.  I have been -- in 
a crosswalk, as a pedestrian, with a green light, in a 
school zone, at 8 am.  It still bothers me that *I* was 
blamed for it by the CHP (figure that one out).  It does, 
however, make a pretty good party story, but mostly 
only because I wasn’t hurt seriously.

...So there’s no Belle & Sebastian content here... or 
much content in general, but I needed a reprieve from 
finals and my as-yet-unfinished, 
due-tomorrow-morning sociology paper.  I shall 
returning to lurking after wishing you all a happy 
holiday --

So Happy Hollandaise, Everyone!

` erin

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