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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2006.03.04

It's funny, maintaining a relationship with someone on the other side of the Pacific. We'd only dated a few times before I was booted from her country but we're doing quite well online.

It's also refreshing being in a relationship that's not fraught with baggage. I almost don't know how to behave without having to indulge a neurotic partner in "down days" and self-destructive behavior of every kind. I guess in this circumstance I'm clearly the unstable one. Dang.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009