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a fellow named Skot (no longer Scott)

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.07.15

While dropping off a roll of film for development at Custom Colour, I was recognized by Skot Nelson, a former coworker from my days at Trimark in Toronto.

He gave me a nudge as I read my last name to the girl behind the counter. I turned and blinked at him, and said, "Scott!" Just about the last person I would have expected to see after about 5 years, on the other side of the country from where we knew one another. We went for drinks and caught up. It turns out he came out here about nine months before I did, and has had a similar experience to mine regarding employment.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row