Sinister: don't be afraid, you have just got your eyes closed

[lynsey callaghan]

Well, hello sinister,
My, my, hasn't it been a long time? I know you've been around but I haven't 
been paying too much attention, you've been kind of like the doddery old 
grandmother who sits in the corner and reads out crossword clues when you're 
trying to watch eastenders. A distraction, although not an altogether 
unpleasant one. Just badly timed.
So I've been busy, for the first time in ages, instead of earning myself a 
reputation for sitting in pubs and coffee shops. I have a job. It's quite 
good. I have some money. That's also quite good.
I'm getting all excited and flustered and watery-eyed about the prospect of 
a belle and sebastian album, which, by most accounts , is going to be 
something of a cracker. I've tried to cheekily download some of the album 
tracks on Kazaa, but it's not having any of it. How am I going to wait any 
longer?!?!

This week, I went to the north of Sweden, to Lapland and into the arctic. I 
stood on the polar circle, which was something of an anticlimax really. A 
big curved log and a visitor's centre which sold fluffy reindeer toys and 
keyrings and fluffy mocassins. A toilet you have to pay 50p to use. A sign 
in severl languages, of which I could read only one, and vaguely understand 
one more. Living in Scandinavia has its downfalls, the biggest one being 
that you really, truly realise your ineptitude for learning languages. I can 
speak English (although some would beg to differ on that point), and a 
little Spanish, basic german. Some of the people I met this weekend can 
speak Swedish, Finnish, Saami, English and German. Phew. Anyway. So the 
arctic circle probably wasn't even the arctic circle this week, since it 
moves according to its mood (honest), so I mayhave been on the Arctic Circle 
(TM), or i may have been nearly a kilometre away. but who's going to know 
from looking at a photo of me grinning and jumping off a log under a sign 
that says *Polcirkeln'?
I also went to the world's largest underground mine (TM) and a big old hole 
in the ground to pick up shiny bits of rock. I think I was supposed to pay 
more attention, but who could do that when there are big shiny bits of metal 
everywhere. eh? Geology schmeology, I'm only in it for the gold.

I haven't really anything constructive to add on teh subject of tweeness, 
since I'm neither twee nor anti-twee, but even if I did, I don't think I 
could articulate it any better than has already been done. It's been nice to 
read some more sinister posts after the recent drought. It's also been nice 
rediscovering #sinister after a month-long absence. You should all come 
along, really! It's not all about bums and smut. Well, not all the time.

In other news, I'm going to be back in the UK for two weeks at the start of 
october. It's going to be a two week frenzy of wine-swilling, gig-going and 
record-buying, and I can't WAIT. I'm going to be in London and Glasgow, and 
possibly several places in between, so if there's going to be anything 
sinisterish happening around that time,or you just fancy going to the pub 
for a big old chat,  please do let me know. And if anyone wanted to organise 
a picnic or pubnic around that time (hint, hint...) that would be just 
lovely.

I should really go and do some work now.

love, volvos and reindeer steaks,
lyns
xox

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