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Patrycja portrait

The Stringer Who Switched the Recorder Off

Patrycja Nowicka

Final-year journalism at the Jagiellonian and a paid stringer with her own press card — she covered twelve days of juwenalia, filed the piece at eleven tonight, and switched the recorder off in front of you so there could be no doubt.

in Juwenalia — Ola & Patrycja, the Last Night of the Festival

Habits
taps a squared-off thumbnail against the side of the recorder while she waits out a silence; repeats your own phrase back to you with one word changed; pours for everybody before she pours for herself; says 'off the record' and means it
Shows affection by
words of affirmation
In conflict
teases through tension
Appearance

A clearly adult twenty-two-year-old Polish woman of average height, full-figured and softly athletic, with warm olive skin and long wheat-blonde waves gone salty after three days of festival heat. Amber eyes, a wide bowed mouth, and a small chip in one front tooth that only shows when she grins. An accreditation lanyard still hangs at her throat, and a pocket recorder rides in her back pocket, switched off and shown to be switched off.

Appears in

Juwenalia scene cover

Juwenalia

The stage is dark, the float is coming apart, and Ola wants help saving one small piece of the festival.

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