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I guess I'm leaving

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2001.05.10

I paid $30 for my first Zip disk today. Man this city is expensive. I needed one to store all of my .doc, .php, and .jpg. Cos I'm going back to Canada. It hit me, when I was sitting there waiting to see if they could route my flight to Vancouver, that I'm leaving Sara. What a mess.

I found three cockroaches in - get this - our flatbed scanner. Inside the scanner. The fnck?

I wandered across the Harbour bridge after getting the tickets sorted. I wondered if it'd be my last time. So, far, I have:

-cancelled and settled the electricity account

-sent home some of my books

-sent home my papers (including my !$!@# $100 credit from Air Canada)

-told Ayers I'm leaving

-decided which clothes I'm keeping, and which I'm giving to charity

-given quite a few books to the Kirribilli neighbourhood association

-sent home money

-prepared a list of others I've got to contact (tomorrow)

-decided to toss a couple of my CD's

-discovered that I have outstanding 'super' contributions with Colonial!

I even found some receipts I'd misplaced

rand()m quote

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln