{"id":7889,"date":"2023-10-20T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:28:33","slug":"vlog-living-in-avignon-provence-france-remote-work-and-swimming-under-a-2000-yr-roman-aqueduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/vlog-living-in-avignon-provence-france-remote-work-and-swimming-under-a-2000-yr-roman-aqueduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlog | Living in Avignon, Provence, France; remote work and swimming under a 2000-yr Roman aqueduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7889\" class=\"elementor elementor-7889\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dc5dec1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dc5dec1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5bd3497\" data-id=\"5bd3497\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9559fa2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"9559fa2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=QY2KvN8mC-w&amp;t=5s&amp;ab_channel=C%27estTahney%3A%29&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f784367 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f784367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I moved to France a year ago and this summer, in between living situations, I decided to stay in the south of France before finding a new home (thanks to Airbnb monthly discounts equalling rent payments!). In month two, I lived in Avignon, Provence. The city walls trapped in the 40-degree heat in a pretty stifling way. But there\u2019s something about giving way to feeling hot and sweaty after months of grey cold. I love living a season (of the year and of live) in-between like this. 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artist\u2019s withdrawal from the arts industry and vice versa. Veda, an ambivalent housewife and zealous poet in 1960s Melbourne, grants legal guardianship of her young son to a wealthy couple, the Parishes, to allow her more time to write. As implied by the title, this exchange isn\u2019t so simple. She\u2019s a complex figure in a world where sexism and artistic precarity overlap, and motherhood and creative labour remain mutually exclusive. 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