What a day! I couldn't find my valarian tea bags and due to how much on my mind and not drinking any alcohol I didn't sleep a wink last night. I think that because I've planned myself a relatively full on week the universe has decided to teach me a lesson about letting go of expectations and adapting to unforseen circumstances. In preparation for Fridays shennanigans I had to hit town and buy a load of shit, which immediately got me thinking about means, ends and alternative ways of acquiring, making or doing without certain things. Black trousers, sun glasses, face paint, eyeliner, swimming cap, flourescent pink spray paint, printer ink, 2 small clip boards, 2 small note pads, a veggie breakfast from Panorama in the Guild Hall Market and a red pepper, courgette and some mushrooms from the fruit and veg stall. I asked the woman who worked there why she'd moved and she explained that the rent was cheaper and that everyone was struggling in the market and fearing the worst. Why is this? Recession? spending cuts? Osbournomics? Anyone?
Whilst out and about I got a call from Footprinters who for some reason still hadn't received the solidarity pamphlet flyer that I had spent an absurd amount of time trying to send the day before. I started to head home, whipping out 20 lengths in the pool and my mind chi meditation madness on the way before sitting down to resend the file. Whilst swimming I got a call from Baby J who was asking where my OCNs were, which I'd completed but not burnt to disc. I tried to stay chilled and accept that what I'd planned for this afternoon wasn't going to happen and that it's good to be flexible and accept how the chips fall from time to time. I got home and logged on to my gmail account. No connection. If I didn't get the flyers there today then they wouldn't be ready for Friday which would be a disaster as a major part of the action is handing out the flyers and raising awareness about the events coming up. I headed to Baby T School, on foot my I add after yesterdays back tyre incident, and sent the file to Footprinters before walking back home. Job done. Back to the plan.
The main thing I wanted to do today was get my head around the spending cuts so I went on to the UK Uncut website and checked out the resources there as well as searching around the net for a few other facts, figures, stats, opinions and analysis. What seems evidently clear is that these spending cuts are completely unnecessary and are a part of a neoliberal class war that is redistributing wealth from the poorest members of society towards the top. Our government has an AAA credit rating and is the 4th biggest economy in the world and therefore has absolutely no need whatsoever to implement any of these spending cuts. Not to mention the extent to which the deficit could be paid off by clamping down on tax evaders, reforming the tax system generally as well as a myriad of other mainstream measures. This still isn't getting to the root of the problem of the Capitalist economic system which inherently creates poverty, inequality, environmental degradation and more due to its logic of infinite growth on a world with finite resources. The list goes on.
I also tried to write some lyrics for the pre-City-Zen street performance but due to the lack of sleep I couldn't really get my head round it so spent 2 hours staring at my notepad whilst being semi-aware of season 4 of the Wire playing in the background. Ruth returned from her two week holiday away so it was great to catch up with her and she kindly cut my hair so that I can pull off my costume on Friday. I then spent the rest of the evening making J30 Strike stickers and UK Uncut spending cut stickers as well as starting to make a stencil which I fucked up at the last minute. I'm shattered. I've knocked back a pint of Valarian tea so hopefully get some sleep tonight.
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