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back-to-school special on tattoos

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.09.06

I passed a shop advertising "sizzling back-to-school deals!" It was a tattoo shop.

I guess it makes sense, in a way. If you can get the customers while they're still flush with cash from their summer jobs, their parents hand-outs, and their student loans .. why wouldn't you?

Speaking of back-to-school, today is the first day of school in Ontario and as it happens I was returning a rental car during what has to be one of the most congested days of the year. It's one day that sees all of the parents changing their routines, all of the school buses returning, and the re-introduction of crossing guards. It took me forty-five minutes to drive about seven kilometers.

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel