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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.02.02

I managed to fail to impress the waitress at my somewhat-regular lunch spot, today. It was about 2 PM when I shuffled in, and I was complaining of a hangover. She made sympathetic sounds until I admitted that I'd just be climbing back into the saddle again tonight when my buddy Charlie arrives.

I failed to learn whether we're looking at eight more weeks of winter.

rand()m quote

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse