Author Archives: Eugénie Austin
Almost done
The semester is nearly done, and I’ve been negotiating with my Prof’s to use up untaken absences and make some presentations before they’re due and so be able to finish everything earlier than I’d thought and go home! One of my classes has completely wound up already, and one is running down the way classes […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Coffee, Diner, Early, Flatiron
Farewell Lovely Bike
Last night I met the locksmith who covered his shop in keys, 35 years ago. Here’s the pic’s I’d taken previously (in daylight); He was in his shop as I passed, looking out and looking friendly. His shop is a triangle. When you step in you have to stop immediately, […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Bike, Christmas, Laundry, Stonewall, Wall
Today
I watched this dog lie down for what looked like the last time, this morning. The concrete was too cold to be lying on, like that. And he was too still. For too long. Time passed. She looked upset. I waited… Nobody stopped, nobody did anything. More time passed. And then he got up! […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Billboard, Class, Dog, Truck
Boilers and Billboards
I’ve been kicking around in my basement, trying to take photos of the boiler and it’s plumbing and machinery (I have a fondness for old and failing infrastructure). It’s led to me noticing the number of temporary boilers on the streets around here. When a boiler (always located in the basement, and for the purpose […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Billboard, Black, Boiler, Sun, Times Square
Thanks (Kates) Giving
Noo Yoik stops for Thanksgiving. Uni pauses so everyone can go home. They say, ‘happy holidays’. Kate had a birthday party, which meant I sort of went to a Thanksgiving feast! It was at PointB, a live/work artist space in Brooklyn. There are plenty of Australians there (living and working) plus some ring ins tonight […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Kate, PointB, Thanksgiving
It Snowed! (much excitement x1)
This is my fast walk to Uni this morning; When I came back out of the building it was snowing! I gaped and turned in circles for a while and wanted to marvel at it with my little crowd who were organising their back packs and umbrellas and smiling politely at my exclamations but were […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Performance, Snow
Finals, and The Mike Brown Rally
At dinner with a uni friend tonight we did what students are wont to do at this time of year; express our fatigue, anxiety and dwindling personal confidence by complaining about our colleagues, faculty and institution. There’s little effort towards cohesion (more general exclamations and upwardly inflecting unanswerable questions, like ‘uhmygod, she is just, like, so […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Brown, Finals, Mike, Thanksgiving
From My Balcony, 8am-ish, Monday Morning.
This is the self appointed McCarthy Square Manager. I chatted to him once; he lives on Charles Street overlooking the square (triangle), is retired from a ‘sales career; ya know, selling money, mostly’, and considers the maintenance and beautification of McCarthy Square his personal responsibility and civic duty, and ‘a real pleasure, aw, ta see […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Balcony, Crane, Desk, Morning, Square
A Prairie Home Companion
It’s a radio show. It’s been on air for 30 years. It’s performed live every Saturday night, usually in Minnesota, but last night in Noo Yoik! It’s exceedingly home spun, feel good, light, bright, nostalgic, musical, and smiley. M told me all of that when she asked me along, but it was more of each […]
Categories: A Semester in New York Blog • Tags: Companion, Empire, Garrison, Prairie, Town