Saturday, March 10, 2007

Sandrine's Story




Hello my little droogies,

Well now you can probably understand why i became a nun.
I grew up with two hill billys: one who didn't know he had a sister, the other who would push me into the nearest wall each time our paths crossed. Meals were never a harmonious affair, plates and mustard pots flying, the latter brother persistently fracturing his hand while the former dodged his punches.
I've already told you about Axbal saving Jerome from a near death when Stephane (contrary to appearances, Stephane is actually French and should really stop mispelling his own name) was trying very hard to drown him in a lake in Memphis. Of course he had been severely provoked: Jerome had smirked at him at the local Seven-Eleven. There are limits to any man's tolerance.
Meanwhile, to escape the chaos, I played a lot of football (never once received a pass from Diego Zemelman) on our cherished concrete pitch, and generally had a whale of a time with all you lot. I was one of those marginal Saxon fans too- my beloved elder brother goalie ever oblivious to my high-pitched cheers.
Ah the Pay de PiƱa...
How to retrieve the memories of Lost Time? Particularly after twenty three consecutive Munich Fests.
But life in the convent is peaceful these days...
and no, i do not belong to the SS faction of the sisterhood as my brother so lamely suggests, but to the Existentialist one (Groucho Marxist to be precise). Typical of Stephane to confuse the two, but then what can you expect from someone who has spent over two decades in yanksville? The very notion of nuance virtually disappears when all you ever read are star-charts and the occasional blackberry CNN clip. Note how these lost souls feel compelled to flag each manifestation of sarcasm with a smiley face lest we too had lost the capacity to read between the lines. And can you believe he actually said "Scorpios are such control freaks"? How bloody embarassing.
So forgive him my fair chums
and forgive us all, for we have probably eaten far too many choco roles..


(n.b. i posted this all by myself.
actually Stephane helped me. apart from being an expert in western astrology he's a total IT wizard)