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"that thing on your face is getting bigger"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.12.07

Over the course of the past two days, a nasty rash has lit up on the side of my face, just down from my ear.

This morning, when my girlfriend told me, "That thing on your face is getting bigger," I decided it was time to go to the walk-in clinic. I'm now on some very expenses antiviral pills. Apparently I have shingles.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009