Guffawing...can't stop. 2 years and 100 nights. Yep. Your digs in NYC are a mirror image of mine here in Paris - the one I jumped over piled trash after opening the very odd door put together with different materials looking like a montage of dumpster diving finds. I slept on the wooden floor for 2 weeks curled up on my Irish Duster like a cat in a fetal position using my purse for a pillow. After night 3, I got bedbugs. They love me. In the night they swarmed out of the walls from their hibernation and up through the broken 120 year old wooden floors thirsty for blood. Thankfully I had not taken any clothes out of the suitcases. I went online (no wifi) at the restaurant across the street - politely siting outside - sleuthing for a bedbug company. Thankfully by iPhone, a woman took pity on my bad French and new situation and sent someone over within hours. That quick service is rare here. I stripped off my duster and all of my clothes, put them in a trash bag for intense poison, put clean non bugged ones on and slept at the 3 star hotel with AC for 2 days while the poison did its job. Having $200 hidden in cash, and my Never Leave Home Without It card, saved me.
Talent: Artist International Renommee. 1.2 years to get it with several flights back and forth from Paris to Huntsville, DC. NYC, and finally Atlanta. (Plus 2 creepy Visa scammers whom I gave money to) The story is just too long and INSANE. Another day. But, if ANYONE, wants info on how to get your Residency or long Visa here in a fraction of the time, I am the light who shares information gotten by - hitting cement walls , sliding down, getting back up again - charging ahead- like the Road Runner always slamming into that painted tunnel.
JC....tried to send you my "in progress" photos of my maquette for my monument "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword" - they keep coming back - fatiguing. Let me know how to send. Loved the photo of the bottle flag still right side up. Macqueenfineart.com Thanks for keep ing me laughing while working on this monument for freedom of expression and contra tyranny.
I've been looking forward to seeing the in-progress images. Please email them to me. send me a message jasonchatfieldnyc@gmail.com.
This story is so amazing. I hope you have kept diaries of all of this. I'm so sorry about the bed bugs. That's my biggest fear in New York City. We did have an outbreak in 2014, and at one point I thought I had them, but at the time it turned out just to be fleas.
You truly have a book in you. I hope you've begun writing it.
I imagine that part of the fun and adventure in finding a place like that is knowing what a terrific origin story it would make someday. And so it has!
I’ve lived in some small places, but this takes the biscuit! I don’t know how you worked there for so long.
But I kind of like the bunkbed above the kitchen sink idea. Did anyone ever stay there whilst you lived there?
My two best friends from high school in Perth came to visit over the course of a year and both stayed in that bunk bed.
Inspiring! : )
Guffawing...can't stop. 2 years and 100 nights. Yep. Your digs in NYC are a mirror image of mine here in Paris - the one I jumped over piled trash after opening the very odd door put together with different materials looking like a montage of dumpster diving finds. I slept on the wooden floor for 2 weeks curled up on my Irish Duster like a cat in a fetal position using my purse for a pillow. After night 3, I got bedbugs. They love me. In the night they swarmed out of the walls from their hibernation and up through the broken 120 year old wooden floors thirsty for blood. Thankfully I had not taken any clothes out of the suitcases. I went online (no wifi) at the restaurant across the street - politely siting outside - sleuthing for a bedbug company. Thankfully by iPhone, a woman took pity on my bad French and new situation and sent someone over within hours. That quick service is rare here. I stripped off my duster and all of my clothes, put them in a trash bag for intense poison, put clean non bugged ones on and slept at the 3 star hotel with AC for 2 days while the poison did its job. Having $200 hidden in cash, and my Never Leave Home Without It card, saved me.
Talent: Artist International Renommee. 1.2 years to get it with several flights back and forth from Paris to Huntsville, DC. NYC, and finally Atlanta. (Plus 2 creepy Visa scammers whom I gave money to) The story is just too long and INSANE. Another day. But, if ANYONE, wants info on how to get your Residency or long Visa here in a fraction of the time, I am the light who shares information gotten by - hitting cement walls , sliding down, getting back up again - charging ahead- like the Road Runner always slamming into that painted tunnel.
JC....tried to send you my "in progress" photos of my maquette for my monument "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword" - they keep coming back - fatiguing. Let me know how to send. Loved the photo of the bottle flag still right side up. Macqueenfineart.com Thanks for keep ing me laughing while working on this monument for freedom of expression and contra tyranny.
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I've been looking forward to seeing the in-progress images. Please email them to me. send me a message jasonchatfieldnyc@gmail.com.
This story is so amazing. I hope you have kept diaries of all of this. I'm so sorry about the bed bugs. That's my biggest fear in New York City. We did have an outbreak in 2014, and at one point I thought I had them, but at the time it turned out just to be fleas.
You truly have a book in you. I hope you've begun writing it.
Happy Anniversary! I think I can speak for many, if not all, of us and say we're damn glad you're here! Huzzah!!
I imagine that part of the fun and adventure in finding a place like that is knowing what a terrific origin story it would make someday. And so it has!