Sinister: living out the life of a poet

[Rachel Playforth]

Hello Sinister!

Ooh it's been a while hasn't it? Like Andrea (hi!) I am now a Professional 
Information Goddess, having finished my MA - which seemed to take about 
nine years although it was really only three - in May. I don't think I'll 
be launching my new skills on the unsuspecting library world just yet 
though, as I now have a little Sinister bun in the oven hooray! *waves at 
all the illustrious and lovely Sinister parents*

I know Mozart is the composer of choice for making unborn babies clever or 
whatever (my mum favoured Bach I believe so I am only moderately endowed 
with genius), but Belle and Sebastian seem to me to be ideal pre-birth 
listening for the discerning foetus. Matt might go for something a bit more 
bass-heavy and I can see his point because there's a lot of distracting 
background noise in the womb, but I also think the baby needs to be born 
with the melody to Another Sunny Day already hardwired into its brain.

Famously, current crops of babies are soothed by the Neighbours theme tune, 
because when their mothers were pregnant it signified them sitting down and 
relaxing, which relaxation was transmitted to bubs. But I don't have a TV 
and the programmes I watch on DVD [Lost, 24, Alias, The West Wing] tend to 
raise my heart rate if anything. But B&S do make me relax. At this rate 
baby Archel-Matt will recognise Stuart Murdoch's voice better than it 
recognises ours.

Update on The Life Pursuit: I now like all but one track very much, 
including We Are The Sleepyheads which I was unaccountably indifferent to 
before (Honey you were right all along!). But Mornington Crescent is still 
by Oasis.

Red knicker picnic sounds lovely. (And I guess it's true what they say 
about Primrose Hill being a fertility site then...) I hope I can come - as 
long as Ken promises not to bring any cod roe, as merely reading his post 
made me want to heave. Whatever cravings I eventually get I am almost sure 
they won't be for fish eggs. Not sure what a Sinister picnic looks like 
sober though, so that will be strange...

My sandwiches: humous and cucumber. Although today I will get to have a 
Sandwich Adventure, because I am buying one at work instead of making my 
own. Who knows what delights the lovely ladies in the Humanities Cafe will 
have to offer?

I'm sure there were other things to say but they've slipped my mind. Still, 
if I remember them later then it might mean I'll post more than once this 
year.

Warm fuzzies to all of you,
Archel+bump xxx


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