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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.11.23

This must have been the slowest day of the year. We finally escaped my hungover apartment at around 3 and went to retrieve the car. Then we did a bit of plant shopping (my girlfriend is filling the 'planter' that she's fashioned from a cross-section of empty tree that my mum spotted and collected for the purpose). Then we ate at a really cool little pub on Yonge St called "Mad Murphy's" or something like that, and then I think we watched the premiere of "DaVinci's Inquest". I had to scramble to get some bits of coax cable so that I could record something on one channel while watching another.And with that, the journal has sunk to yet another new low: I just related which TV shows we watched. Ah, hell, who am I kidding. After three giant cups of red wine duked it out with as many of those poisonous vodka stoly things, my body was a ravaged war zone of hangoveria, and the bloody TV was the highlight of the day. Or was it the burger at "Mad Murphy's"? Yes, the burger.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud