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Toronto, 2005.05.10

The shoes I bought on Sunday for the office are proving to be revolutionary. They fit so well that now that I try on the shoes I had before, I realize how ill-fitting and tight those other shoes were. I am now cursed to replace 2 or 3 pairs of shoes with EE width styles. Yes, I take 16EE shoes.

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