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Yoon is here!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Sydney, 2000.10.14

Charlie arrived today. We went to a party hosted by Sara's coworker and friend Jo.

Pictured are Rob, Me, Sara, and Charlie. We represented about half of those who bothered to dress as requested, natch. It was good - Jo and her roomy had the whole place decked outin a travel theme. The two of them were stewards for Virginal Air, and had runway tape on the floors to indicate the way to the 'mile high club'. Very witty.. Sydney house parties seem a fair bit more friendly than Torontonian ones. Mercifully, didn't mix the booze too badly.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner