ThirdCat is my blog name from when it seemed like I needed to be anonymous. I am Tracy Crisp.
I have just moved to Abu Dhabi where I will live for around two years. Possibly three. Abu Dhabi is slightly north of Adelaide where I will be visiting on and off for the next few years and where I will one day live again. Adelaide is slightly south of Port Pirie which is where I grew up and is the place I carry in my heart. I caught the Trans-Siberian train from Beijing to Moscow and saw Lenin in his tomb. That was a long time ago. I once, unwittingly, caught the Love Boat from Vancouver to San Fransisco. I lived in New Zealand for four years, but never bungy jumped. If John Howard had won the last election, I would’ve moved back. And I would’ve jumped.
If I could live anywhere in the world, I think it would be Mexico. But I haven’t been to Spain yet, so maybe it would be there.
I have two boys. They don’t look like me. Not at all. I thought I was having three, and I guess that tells you something about my intuitive powers. I don’t have any cats, but I’ve had my share. For a short while I had a Dog, but he couldn’t come to Abu Dhabi. Just because you’ve got a Dog, doesn’t make you a Dog Person. That’s something I’ve learned.
I write short stories and essays and my first novel, Black Dust Dancing, will be published by Wakefield Press in March 2009.
One year ago (actually, now it’s nearly two, now moving on for three), I started performing standup comedy. It feels good when people laugh and shit when people don’t.
In Adelaide I had a Real Job I never blogged about.
Time was, I tried to get all the washing off the line by Friday afternoon, but these days I live an apartment with a washing machine in the kitchen and no washing line.
2009 will be the year I turned 40.
My website is here, and I can get emails at: tracyqcrisp at gmail.com
3 responses so far ↓
Jo Pankhurst // March 30, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
hi,
just finished reading your book! you are even more amazing now than I thought you were! (and I always thought you were pretty dam good!) xx
ps I think your boys look like you
ThirdCat // March 30, 2009 at 10:47 pm |
jo! thanks so much. we miss yous.
candy // June 4, 2009 at 7:00 am |
Hello Tracy,
I just came across your blog when I was ‘googling’ my mother, Sophie van Rood, (The Banana Room) to see get some links for my own blog.
This is quite wonderful. The picture on your blog of the black polymer clay hand earrings,
were made my me in 1986-8. (I only have one pair left after all these years) Sophie used to stock some of my pieces there at times.
I live in Melbourne these days, still making jewellery, albeit different from those early days.
It was lovely to come across this, and your writing looks like I should explore it.
Anyway, I wish you all the best,
Candy
(aka Candida van Rood)
http://inbetweenart.blogspot.com/