Working it Out

Caught at Jackson and Wabash. Jabril is his name.

“Where are you coming from? Job?

“yes, I work during the day and teach at Columbia at night.”

“Oh, so you are an artist??

“I guess you could say that. But I still have a day job. I think everyone has to do something creative. What’s your creative thing?”

“I have a Masters in Linguistics from Morocco. I came here for 9 years and started substitute teaching. I teach French so I didn’t get called that often. They only pay like uh 50 to 100 dollars a week.”

[Read more…] about taxi cab #5

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This is from the show last weekend. Thinking about more transportation narratives. walking to interact, sitting and moving to tell stories…..or something like that.

This semester I teach Monday and Tuesday nights on top of working a full day job. I’m always committed to public transit, but couldn’t take getting home at midnight 2 nights in a row with getting up for work. So the past few weeks I’ve been splurging on the $9-10 taxicab home.

Sometimes the drivers are talking on their cellphones so I just stare out the window. But on the weeknight cab rides…and the occasional weekend one, we chat. [Read more…] about 3 taxicab stories…#1, #2, and #4, will be telling more…

https://maryrachelfanning.com/74/

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