so i've been writing letters and sending emails all this morning...keep putting off making that clench performance...i think it might make a better sort of week long piece, i was going to take the national exercise recommendations and replace regular exercise with pelvic florr muscle exercise...and record comfort levels and stress and such...maybe make a ...pie chart?


anyway, i sent this as a sort of letter template and just switched a few names and info around when sending to different people...



Hello,

My name is Polly Aplin, a practicing Artist in Cardiff, Wales. I am accumulating information for a book that is in pre-production. The project is concerned with women and what roles they play in today’s society, whether they feel free and independent and what culture changes have done to impact on their lives. The crux of the issue is sex, and how within the last few years the attitudes of sex and the applications of sex have changed, especially concerned with woman’s identity.

I am building a back catalogue of research before I tackle social experiments, and I want to speak to as many people who have knowledge of sexual and female history as possible.

I am primarily concerned with the UK and what impact the culture has here, but in order to gain perspective I wanted to visit Amsterdam and become involved in a community that has different, more relaxed views towards sex than the UK, and gradually build up a strong contextual basis for my study.


Reading through your website I was terribly excited about perhaps conducting a few interviews with the people that run this information centre.
I believe that speaking with maintainer(s) of the centre would prove very useful to my research.
My research leave to Amsterdam is from the 8th of May till the 11th (quite soon, i apologise but my leave was confirmed in the last few days)
If it is at all possible to schedule an informal interview i would be very pleased!

Thank you for your time

Polly Aplin



other than that im pretty sure i cut the inside of my mouth while eating dinner last night....now im not one to chew very well....i really should chew better....but while i was eating i swallowed and ouch, something dragged along the left side of my throat and its hurt and been sore since then.
we were ating crusty fresh bread...so it might have been a particularly sharp piece of crust....but since last night i've been a little paranoid that it was a HIDDEN RAZOR BLADE!!!!.....
or something like that...thats what i get for watching Derren Brown (magician guy who put some razor blades in mini roll cakes and got people to eat them and magic'd the blades away!)

anyway...should be working alot harder...but just...messing around really...