January 24, 2003 | 9:55 AM

Pssst...

Hotmail isn't working anymore on my computer. No idea why. It worked last night at home but not here anymore. Is anyone else having this problem? So if I'm not getting back to you, that's why.

Last night my sister and I went to Charlie's and got blitzed. It was so much fun. Except that unlike usual, the music SUCKED. I had to hear Master of Puppets three times in an hour. Now, I have as much appreciation for earlier Metallica as the next guy. But when I'm relaxin' at a bar and in a jingle jangle mood, I would rather hear something like Echo and the Bunnymen or the Stones or Iggy Pop. Which is what I usually hear at Charlie's.

I have never seen my sister so trashed before. She's actually a really great drunk. She just starts giggling at everything and being hilarious. She went on this whole rant about cigarette pack warnings in Europe, and how they keep getting edgier and more desperate to the point where eventually, the back of a cigarette will be a picture of a guy leaning over to pick up a butt he dropped in the street only to have a huge anvil drop on his hand, smashing the bones to pieces. My sister is the Lenny Bruce of the Bennington Set, I tell ya.

When the two of us got home we had a dance party (this has been happening a lot since she came up and it has been a great source of joy for me.) And then I passed out sometime around 2:30.

Tpday I feel terrific. Tonight I am going out with Jeremy and Kelly and Jonee and possibly others tosee Hedwig and then off to sing at a piano bar. And tomorrow I am going to the North End.

YAY WEEKEND!!!!