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I'm gunna be a dad

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2007.06.04

ultrasound

Yes, it's one of those images you don't forget. Mari and I went to the hospital and went for the tests that we knew would be positive. It meant a lot of waiting for me, and being poked and ultrasounded for her.

And when she finally emerged, I asked, "Well?"

She said, "now we pay."

I said, "The results!"

She said, "Ha ha, I was teasing."

Yeah, she got me and good.

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