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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.09.26

It's a funny thing. At the very end of my contract, I'm as busy as I have been with reports for clients and whatnot. And the reason I'm even leaving is that there just weren't enough billable hours to keep me on. Aaarrgh.

rand()m quote

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