twenty-seven years and one million words
Ah, Winter. When your metropass factors into a trip to get groceries. Today, I walked up to the station and took the subway one stop north to where there's a grocery store. So lazy.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row