Sinister: mmmmmmmmm mmm

[Christopher David Johnson]

Hi guys!
	Well I'm super chirpy today as its just been confirmed that i am to
leave these wet shores to enjoy a year at the University of santa
Barbara.  Well its not till September but thats a lot of time to get
excited about it.  So, now for some serious list abuse, Mine is a plea
to any nice californians in this area to befriend me so i don't come
over to your big counrty all on my lonesome.  I'm just a wee Scots
laddie not used to anything much appart fae haggis hunting and what
not.  Seriously though, i'd be most grateful as theres a lot to learn.
	So wow, theres been a lot of emotions on the list right now.  A lot of
people are mentioning exes all of whom have remained in some sort of
contact and all of who seem moved by the experiences, then their are
those with real anxieties about tickets for gigs - yeah ticketmaster,
wheres mine?!!, but best of all i think have been the funny tales and
information.
	Well, Stuart Gardiner i'm sure is chortling to himself as i imediately
tested his challenge that it is impossible for a human to lick their
elbow.  Well i'd agree, but i'm notoriously inflexible and miracles can
happen.  Also recently I loved that alternate take to 'La Patie de la
Bourgoisie', ahh, mishearings. I was sitting in this fine institutions
computer lab, surrounded by loads of serious looking students, trying so
hard not to laugh last whilst emmiting strange snorting noises which i
tried to pretend where coughs.  They gave me odd looks but i bet it was
to hide their curiosity at what was so funny.  And then to top it all
off Tom Pettinger shared his Card story.  Well wow, i'm inviting my
buddies round for 'cheese' and wine this week!
	So right now i'm listening to Peloton by the Delgados.  I guess i
should be a bit more familiar with the group but i only really got into
them a couple weeks back, and whilst the musics rather good its the
names i like.  I can't tell you my excitement at being a cyclist and
seeing 'Domestiques' with all its surrounding artwork.  And then on the
inside it says artwork by 'Van Impe', now surely that refers to the
great flemish powerhouse himself, and then the track listing was laid
out just like Tour De France results! and what a fine picture of old
Pedro Delgado himself.  Well maybe i'm a little overexcited by what to
most of you will be old news but its not everyday the sport gets
recognised in cool culture.  Anyway this must all seem really dull to
most of you who don't cycle.  
By the way, have any of you read Lance Armstrong's book though? he used
to grace my bedroom door as a schoolboy, resplendant in his World
Champions Jersey of 1993 and now it seems so wrong to idoloize him as a
cyclist.  His come back from Cancer to me really was a moving event as
it unfolded in the cycling press and his attitude towards his illness
and recovery is so truly admirable, and even resposible in a selfless
way, and so many times did my eyes well up with tears while reading his
book.  I'd recommend it to anyone as the cycling content really is only
minor detail in accompaniment to a story of incredible courage.
	And on that note i shall leave, but i look forward to hearing from any
of you Californian B&S fans who might want to pity me,
Cheers guys,
Christopher
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