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Springtime lunch

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.05.19

I had lunch outdoors today. No big deal in a normal Toronto Spring, but this was, as late as it is, the first time that I can recall.

The weather has been just ridiculous. Again today we woke to fairly thick fog that only seemed to deepen as the morning wore on. Finally at around 12:30 it started to burn off, and as I'd just emerged from a take-out restaurant I doubled back and got myself a fork so that I could eat on a rickety bench and watch the people on Spadina Avenue.

With the good, though, comes the bad. All of the rain has given rise to a bumper crop of mosquitoes. Our back yard today was so thick with the things that I had to hold my breath at times. Dragging my mountainbike while holding my breath and thrashing at my face .. what a way to start the day.

rand()m quote

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman