journal features

the flu

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.30

Nine out of eleven kids in the two-year-olds' class at the day care have the influenza.

I don't see how it could be far off for Kenny and his classmates, because they share a room with the older kids, and there's never a nose in sight that's not runny. Hang on, everybody, here it comes!

rand()m quote

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

—Jonathan Rosenberg