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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2005.04.07

As expected, I now have two job offers to contend with. And my hand has been forced in the matter by one of them demanding an immediate response even though the other isn't ready for me to sign. No matter what kind of management of expectations I've tried, the firm with whom I hadn't even met as of last Friday is pushing me to start tomorrow, and is calling me every couple of hours!

So I've passed up the one in favour of the verbal offer I've accepted from the other. Why does life get like this?

It seems I've wrapped up the latest chapter with Bell Mobility just in time.

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