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a nurse's pin and a room full of chairs

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.02.25

Tonight I found an RN's pin on my seat on the eastbound 504 streetcar tonight. I handed it to a TTC operator who happened to be riding the streetcar.

I hope that the nurse gets her pin back.

After I'd alighted, I once again noticed that the light was on in a basement window on my street, showing a room full of chairs. That light is often on, and nothing seems to ever change in the way the chairs are arranged. And I don't mean just wall-to-wall seating, I mean every cubic meter was full of stacked chairs. Not sure why they'd need so many chairs or why they'd need to the light the room.

P.S. The original "Jurassic Park" is eighteen years old. We showed it to Kenny tonight. He really liked it (when he wasn't hiding under his afghan).

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