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On it, people criss-crossing on bikes or on foot from one side of the water to the other.

And I'm dying to know where are they going.

I'm going to work and my shift starts in 15 minutes so I need to fix my bike so

I'm going to Rio.

To Rio in Brazil.

Yeah.

Next week there's a design week in Rio and they invite me as one of the keynote speakers.

Have you done your speech? Prepared your speech? one of the keynote speakers. So I'm very happy.

Have you done your speech?

Prepared your speech?

Not well enough.

Now I'm going to leave the dogs out there

so they can be in pool.

Then I go shopping, clean the house, and then we start cooking and then it's evening.

It's a normal day in the autumn and I'm interrupting people in that ordinary day and so often uncovering the extraordinary

simply by asking where are you going?

I'm going to ride a dam I'm going to visit someone who's been my pen pal for about 17 years and whenever I can get to try and make it to her once a year if I can.

So tell me about when you became pen pals.

We were members of a feminist punk writing collective. became Pempam-Pem-Pem-Pem-Pem-Pem-Pem-Punk Writing Collective and we wrote a lot of letters and made

zines together that we sold at punk gigs and for my 30th birthday I bought myself around them.

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