Heut startet meine vierte Arbeitswoche, in der ich nicht bezahlt werde. Ich warte immer noch auf mein Visum und zunehmend steigt der Frust deswegen. Mein Umzug nach Sydney war ja nicht grad billig. Dazu kommt, dass ich wegen fehlendem Visum nicht krankenversichert bin.
Immerhin hab ich nach nur 2 Wochen der Suche schon eine Wohnung gefunden. Diesmal keine WG, sondern ein Ministudio mit Minibalkon. Wieder in Gehweite von Uni. Die letzten 3 Wochen musste ich täglich 2 mal 40-50 Minuten mit dem Bus zur Uni pendeln. Busse in Sydney sind eher mühsam. Die alten Modelle entsprechen in etwa den Zuständen von Bussen in Ostafrika. Und die Busfahrer sind teilweise echte Kamikazefahrer.
Das mit der Wohnung hat besser geklappt als erwartet. Man muss hier erst einmal eine Application abgeben, inklusive Referenzen, Kontoauszug, Arbeitsvertrag – und das Maklerbüro ruft tatsächlich überall an, um die Daten zu überprüfen.
Eine Google Streetview Ansicht von meiner neuen Wohnstraße unten. Das Apartmenthaus ist am Ende der Straße rechts, mehr ist auf Streetview leider nicht zu sehen. Weitere Fotos folgen sobald ich in knapp 3 Wochen die Schlüssel bekomm.
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Just a general update: I finally finished my PhD last November (after some hard weeks of writing and no sleep) and started this great position as a lecturer in Digital Media at Sydney University only a few weeks ago. So back into the summer now. More news soon to come.
OK, 8 more days left and I’m still living more or less at uni to finish everything before my last weekend in Sydney.
One of the projects finished yesterday and was exhibited at an exhibition at the School of IT, which is just a 5 minutes walk from the Faculty of Architecture. The picture above shows the final test run that I did the night before around 3am in the morning. Of course it didn’t work, meaning I didn’t really get to sleep that night, trying to fix it. I finished the whole thing like 5 minutes before the official start of the exhibition. Is that good or bad timing?
More information about the exhibition should be online somewhere soon. Meanwhile, you can see a short video from the exhibition here:
I also just had my final presentation at the weekly research seminar, but have still more work to do: there’s another interactive screen installation I’m setting up, which is not finished yet and should be running by Friday. Going back to work now…
Sorry to everyone for the silence, both on this weblog and in terms of e-mails. I’m basically living at uni now to finish my projects. My final presentation is next Wednesday and I still have heaps to do until then.
I’m also blogging here now, as a guest author:
http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/
It’s about work-related stuff and my contributions will probably be quite limited due to the amount of time I’m already spending on other things.
Is this for real? (Just encountered that on my Mac OS dashboard.) And I recently realised that May here would be like November in Vienna. Luckily the weather isn’t like that. (At least for now)
… looks different to the world map as we use it in Europe. Which makes sense, but looks a bit strange at first sight. Mainly because Europe is all by the sudden not the center of the world =)
Last week I visited the architecture labs for the first time. They’re located in the same building where I currently work, just one level up. It’s the place where architecture students build their models. Apparently the cleaning stuff gave up vacuuming the place and now it’s only being cleaned at the end of every semester, leaving tangible traces of studying activities over time.
I am a tidy person, usually. But somehow – I don’t know why – my work desk always ends up in chaos.
