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This is Cathy. She's touring America at the moment with Fanfarlo. Yup, still got lots of dust hanging around - I haven't got time at the moment to rescan all these and remove the dust so you will have to pretend she is just a dusty lady in person. She was born in the shirt she is wearing. When I said that to Matt he said 'What? Wasn't it FAR too big for her?' so, to clarify, I should probably point out her mother was wearing it as she was born. This is in her flat in Dalston, which used to also be Matt's flat until he moved to Canada.
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Ohhh mann so in my last post I was saying how I'm busy and tired but happy... so the inevitable decline into busy and tired and stressed and delirious has already happened. It was all going OK until I lost two days to a horrible cold & sore throat. I was just in the process of trying to get organised so I could frantically catch up with all the work I hadn't done when I dropped boiling water on my foot like an IDIOT. Obviously that meant I spent all day whimpering in pain/strung out on Codeine while my blisters slowly filled with yellow liquid - nice! Last night I had to dangle my foot over the side of the bed into a pan of cold water so I could get to sleep. Grim times. So I am so so so unprepared for the four heinous tutorials I have this week, and also my mooting application I haven't started that's in for Thursday, and the legal opinion I'm supposed to formulate on domestic violence so I can do pro bono work that I was supposed to do last week... oh my goodness I just want to cry when I think about it. I should clarify that the law conversion is two years of a law degree squeezed into 8 months, so missing a few days really does fuck up your schedule. I felt slightly better after talking to a guy in my tutorials who has a PhD from Cambridge - he's thinking of jacking it in because it's so tough. It was nice to know it's not just my brain that's melting.
I'm resorting to thinking pretty cheesy thoughts to keep going. The guy from Cambridge was saying that law is a means to an end for him - the end being a lot of money - so there's not enough to keep him motivated when there's such an evil mountain of work to do. I'm not as bright as some of the kids on the course, and I don't have the same spotless academic record, or the obsession with being a barrister from a young age, but I do have a good reason. I'm studying law because of the people I spoke to in India - the sex workers there would say to me 'We need lawyers and doctors. We don't need people like you.' When I feel tired and sorry for myself (i.e. all the time) I remember Shabhanar saying 'I would rather be a pig or a dog than a woman.' I remember Shakuntala telling me 'We don't want to do sex work. No-one here wants to do sex work. But if it wasn't for us, normal girls like you would get raped walking down the street'. I remember Savitri showing me her bruises, where she had been savagely beaten by policemen. I might not be on track to be a barrister, and I might fail to become a lawyer at all, but I know that knowing the law can help me protect other people. I AM A WOOLLY LIBERAL, AND I AM NOT ASHAMED.